From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 19:51: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C1737B42C for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8E2of987801; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:20:41 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:20:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Zhenhai Duan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing multiple FreeBSD's Message-ID: <20000914122041.I45769@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000913163832.B12231@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000913163832.B12231@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 13 September 2000 at 16:38:32 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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. Both would work, though sysinstall might have conceptual problems at the idea of more than one system on a Microsoft partition. Certainly separate partitions are easier unless you want to run more than 4 operating systems. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message