From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 27 13:46:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25672 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 13:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25614 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 13:46:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA02227; Wed, 27 May 1998 13:45:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 13:45:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Ricardo M. Codizar" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 versions of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199805270927.RAA21821@jpi.mozcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 May 1998, Ricardo M. Codizar wrote: > I would like to install two FreeBSD versions on my PC together with > Windows 95. I used OS/2 boot manager to create three primary partitions on > my hard disk. I already installed Windows 95 on one of the partition and > FreeBSD 2.0.1 on the other. On one of the partition left, I tried installing > FreeBSD 2.2.2 but FreeBSD 2.0.1 were over written and in return there are > two FreeBSD 2.2.2 version exists. > > Does two FreeBSD partitions can co-exist in one hard disk on a > different partitions? Is that a FreeBSD limitations or hardware limitations? No, it's a boot block limitation. The boot blocks will boot the first FreeBSD slice found in the system. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message