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Subject: Re: Installing two versions of FBSD on one disk
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On Thu, 8 May 2003, Gavin Kenny wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way of installing a second copy of FBSD
> on a second slice/partition of a hard disk? I have a
> spare partition but when I go to install the label
> manager sees both slices (to be expected)and does not
> let me create another root partition.
>

you may want read:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/05/09/Big_Scary_Daemons.html


> I want two copies so I can keep one stable and tweak
> the other.
>
> I've have done some searching but not found anything.
>
> thanks for your help
>
> Gavin
>
> p.s. could you cc this address as I am no longer
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