Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:04:16 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slices and partitions Message-ID: <345A63F0.5E652F78@whistle.com> References: <XFMail.971031155451.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
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Patrick Gardella wrote: > > Help me to make sure I got this right! > > I've got two IDE hard drives > > wd0 is all Windoze 95 > wd1s1 is msdos formatted > wd1s2 is freebsd > > I'd like to format wd1s1 to be freebsd. I've used the tutorial on this. > > >From what I understand, the booteasy/something looks in the first FreeBSD slice > to contain the kernel. So I can't have the two slices on the same drive, with > the first one not being /, right? > > Patrick you can however put another root part there.. use disklabel (or the sysinstall utility) to put a partition the same size as your root part (or there abouts) on that part. then make a filesystem on it (newfs) and copy everything over to it.. then fix the fstab in its /etc directory, and reboot. after rebooting you can reclaim the root on the 2nd slice :) /tmp? julian
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