From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 12 09:00:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA03960 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:00:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from postoffice.onu.edu (postoffice.onu.edu [140.228.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA03951 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from n-ludban@onu.edu) Received: from austin.onu.edu (austin.onu.edu [140.228.10.1]) by postoffice.onu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA22068 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:00:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:00:18 -0500 (EST) From: Neil Ludban To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.5 and 3.0 on same disk -- will it work? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I'd like to have both -current and -stable installed on the same drive. It's a 4G SCSI drive, with 4 slices (all FreeBSD). Slice 1 has partitions a and f (32M each), and e and g (200M each). 2.2.5 is already running with / on sd0a and /usr on sd0s1a. sd0f and sd0s1g are reserved for / and /usr for 3.0. I tried installing 3.0 a couple weeks ago, but it didn't work correctly. The existing partitions were mounted, and / set to be newfs'd (so the /dev entries for the slices would be created). Everything installed fine, then I rebooted and found out that it had switched root to sd0a and installed over the 2.2.5 partition (only /, everything else was fine). Reinstalled 2.2.5 (/ on sd0f) and it also switched to sd0a, so I was back where I started. Now that there's a good SMP snapshot out, I'd like to try this again. Questions: - I tried untarring the the bin dist into sd0f, built a kernel with root on sd0f, and it worked (although I didn't really run it for any length of time). But, install does some stuff with permissions and /dev afterwards. What does it do, and is there a way to do it manually? - Is there anything else that assumes / will be on partition a, and could cause it to be corrupted. Would having no a at all fix that? - Is there a way to get the install floppy to actually install to f? Thanks-- --Neil