Sunday, July 30, 2023

Re: Installing openBSD

Good morning,
I'll preface this with: I'm a new OpenBSD user.
Yes you should keep the EFI partition...but the OpenBSD installer is
pretty thorough and easy to use if you don't have any special
circumstances.
I too started with pfsense and swapped to OpenBSD as a learning
exercise. But I did that after a pretty good base in Linux systems
including your question here. I'd encourage you to thoroughly study Pf
and how to configure rules. Handwriting rules is a bit easier to get
wrong than the pfsense interface.
Good luck!
On 31 Jul 2023 01:30, 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.

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