Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:20:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Zhenhai Duan <duan@cs.umn.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing multiple FreeBSD's Message-ID: <20000914122041.I45769@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000913163832.B12231@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0700 References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009131638120.7203-100000@julius.cs.umn.edu> <20000913163832.B12231@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Wednesday, 13 September 2000 at 16:38:32 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Zhenhai Duan <duan@cs.umn.edu> [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
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