From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 16:38:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ACCD37B42C for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:38:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8DNcX825532; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:38:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:38:32 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Zhenhai Duan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing multiple FreeBSD's Message-ID: <20000913163832.B12231@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from duan@cs.umn.edu on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:43:43PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Zhenhai Duan [000913 14:44] wrote: > For some reason I need to install FreeBSD 3.3, 3.4, and 4.1 onto my > computer. I am wondering if I can put all three / partations into > one slice. I tried this but failed: create a 300M slices, create > three 100M partitions and put each one's root filesystem there. > It seem boot easy will only look for slice, but dont deep in partitions. I would make 3 seperate BIOS partitions, putting more than one / in a single BIOS partition seems like a bad idea. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message