Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:35:22 -0400 From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How should I get 2 complete FreeBSD installs? Message-ID: <p05111b0bb92c6ea247c3@[64.81.19.109]>
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On a Celeron system with a 40gb disk, I'd like to have a working FreeBSD install, plus a complete live backup of the OS, and Windows XP (came with the system and occasionally useful). Not surprisingly, sysinstall won't let me set up two / partitions (or two /usr partitions...) in one pass. I was considering putting Windows in the first slice, then installing a 8gb slice containing /, /usr, and /var, then another 8gb empty, and finally a slice with swap and /home in it. I would then reboot from CD and install the third slice, laid out the same as the second (on this second pass through sysinstall, I'd completely ignore the Windows and second slices). I could dd the second slice to the third to freshen my backup, or vice-versa, or just maintain them separately. My goal is to create a system that is tolerant of my trashing the OS, and a place for experimentation (with 5.0?) that can coexist peacefully with my 'production' OS. This worked very well when I was migrating from LinuxPPC to Yellow Dog over the course of several months -- I was able to boot into YDL to test it out, then boot back into LPPC when done fiddling for a while. When I was finished, I just set YDL as the the default and stopped booting into LPPC. Is there a better way to accomplish this in FreeBSD?? Insights and suggestions welcome. Thanks much, Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/>; Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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