From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 8 17: 3:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net [24.69.46.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C4237B424 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 17:03:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (localhost.gv.shawcable.net [127.0.0.1]) by h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f4906Vi02308 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 17:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Michael O'Henly" Reply-To: michael@tenzo.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question about installing two instances of FreeBSD on same machine... Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:06:31 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01050817063105.01988@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm a new FreeBSD user I have two hard drives. On one drive I've installed FreeBSD 4.3 with the default boot manager. The second drive is not being used. I'd like to run a second instance of FreeBSD on the second drive. The idea is that I could experiment there without worrying about screwing things up and just reinstall when necessary. I'd also like that second instance to share the same /usr/home/michael/ directory and to be able to mount other directories from the first instance to make it easier to copy configuration files between both environments. I _think_ I should boot from the 4.3 CD, format and install a system on the second drive, and not install a boot manager. Then I should add the second system to the boot manager's config file. The part where I'm sketchy is how to make /usr/home/michael accessible from both instances and how to mount directories from the first instance when I need them. Can you please give me some direction here? I don't need details -- just the broad strokes. I just need to know basically how to procede. Thanks. M. -- Michael O'Henly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message