Re: Installing openBSD

Hi,

It is not intended to be a dual boot installation. Therefore, the
PfSense installation must be replaced by open BSD. My question is what I
should do with the (U)efi partition, and how I can possibly link open
BSD to it. Does anyone have some good suggestions for me?


Op 31-07-2023 om 00:06 schreef Saïd AARAB:
> Hi,
>
> It depends if you want to keep the existing psfsens install or if you
> want dual boot.
>
> If looking to install beside pfsens, I would beleive that installing
> OpenBSD along any existing OS should be no different than installing
> linux or windows along another OS, as you would need to prepare the
> block device (SDD) by making space if possible (and if you dont have
> any) for another partition in which you would install OpenBSD. so any
> documentation (explaining how to shrink existing partitions, create
> another partion, handle dual boot) that is not necessarily specific to
> OpenBSD should help.
> Im not very familiar with how pfsens work and if it did install a
> bootloader, if not you might need to install one like GRUB and
> configure it to be able to select between the two OS at startup.
>
> Overall installing dual boot is very tricky and you should be carefull
> to not wipe your existing data, a backup is advised
>
>
>
> On Jul 30, 2023 19:30, Karel Lucas <cahlucas@planet.nl> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm going to install openBSD on a small PC that currently has
> PfSense on
> it. This PC boots this OS via (U)EFI, and therefore has an EFI
> partition
> on the existing SSD. The current partition table looks like, as
> shown by
> openBSD fdisk:
>
>  0: efiboot0
>  1: gptboot0
>  2: swap0
>  3: zfs0.
>
> Should I keep the (U)EFI partition? And if so, how do I mount the
> future
> openBSD root partition to this (U)EFI installation? Are there any
> other
> things I should watch out for? I look forward to receiving responses
> from this community. Sincerely, Karel.
>
>
>