From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 31 15:12:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA11816 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:12:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA11801 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:12:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18045; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:06:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd018036; Fri Oct 31 23:06:02 1997 Message-ID: <345A63F0.5E652F78@whistle.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:04:16 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Gardella CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slices and partitions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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