From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 18:22:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05138 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:22:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05129 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:22:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA09474; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdKq9471; Fri Aug 21 01:01:49 1998 Message-ID: <35DCC6F9.7DE14518@whistle.com> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:01:45 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Burks CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG put all 3 root partitions on the same slice say, a, e and f then use /boot.conf to select between them. you will need separate /usr/partitions as well, common binaries (say in a shared partition) should probably be from the oldest version as newer version still run older binaries. you can make a 2nd BSD SLICE to hold more partitions that will be mounted by /etc/fstab in the appropriate root partition. julian Doug Burks wrote: > > Greetings, > > I would like to create root partitions for three different versions of > FreeBSD on the same disk (wd0, if it matters). I've installed FreeBSD > 2.2.7 on two of the partitions so far, but whenever I boot, but no > matter how I boot, it always boots from the first partition, not the > second. (If it matters, I've tried by choosing the proper F? key under > the FreeBSD boot manager, choosing the partition from the "Boot: " > prompt, and by using the Minix boot manager). Poking around the system > and FreeBSD WWW site yields no definite information, though hints that > it can't be done. > > To cut to the chase, is there a way to boot different versions of Free- > BSD from the same disk? After all, I can boot FreeBSD, Windows 95, and > Minix from the same disk, why not FreeBSD-2.2.7, FreeBSD-stable, and > FreeBSD-current? I'd be shocked if no one else has ever tried this, and > hope I have not missed anything obvious. > > Thanks! Any suggestions, pointers, and hints welcomed. > > Doug Burks 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool > dbx@aa.net than to put up a Web site and remove all doubt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message