1dnl $OpenBSD: prep,v 1.7 2014/02/27 19:04:41 tedu Exp $ 2First and foremost, before beginning the installation process, MAKE 3SURE YOU HAVE A RELIABLE BACKUP of any data on your hard disk that you 4wish to keep. Repartitioning your hard disk is an excellent way to 5destroy important data. 6 7If you plan to dual boot, use the other operating system's "fdisk" program 8or partition editor to create at least one of the partitions to be used for 9that operating system. If that operating system is already set up to use the 10entire disk, you will need to make space available. Windows 7 can resize its 11own system partition. In the control panel, search for "partition": this 12will lead you to the system administration tool. You do not have to create an 13OpenBSD partition at this time; the OpenBSD installation will give you an 14opportunity to create the partition needed for OpenBSD. 15 16Your hard disk is now prepared to have OpenBSD installed on it, and 17you should proceed with the installation instructions. 18