From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 11:54:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43A937B407 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 11:54:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f5OIsnc09123; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 11:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200106241854.f5OIsnc09123@ptavv.es.net> To: parv Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 freebsd slices on 1 disk. possible? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:42:18 EDT." <20010624014218.A762@moo.holy.cow> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 11:54:49 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:42:18 -0400 > From: parv > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > i have a 10GB drive, w/ ~1.5GB fat32, ~3.5GB freebsd 4.3, ~3.6GB > empty/fact32X, ~1.4GB fat32-extended. i want to install another > slice of freebsd on ~3.6GB slice. i hesitate to find the answer > myself as i fear i may screw up the whole installation and/or > boot entries. i searched the mailing lists but found no, or clear, > answers on the topic: > > "Multiple FreeBSDs on one disk" > - edvard fagerholm, 25-mar-2001 > > "Dual boot FreeBSD/FreeBSD" > - mike meyer, 27-jun-2000 > > "install FreeBSD into another slice" > - zhihui zhang, 08-sep-2000 > > > i don't need 2d slice to be bootable, just as long as i can mount it. > of course, if 2d slice can be bootable, i won't complain. i promise. > > could it be possible to do install from the 1st/current slice on > the 2d via sysinstall to create fs, type 0xa5 w/o damaging anything? There is no problem with doing this. My laptop has 2 FreeBSD slices, one that gets backed up regularly and one that is scratch. It contains the FreeBSD sources, objects, and ports. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s2a 49583 42021 3596 92% / /dev/ad0s2f 1582663 1023603 432447 70% /usr /dev/ad0s2e 19815 8501 9729 47% /var /dev/ad0s1 4187580 3346816 840764 80% /dos /dev/ad0s4e 4689197 2947005 1367057 68% /scratch I'd use /stand/sysinstall to re-slice the disk. I also have a small FAT32 slice as ad0s3. Here is the output of fdisk(8): Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) start 63, size 8391537 (4097 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 554/ sector 63/ head 239 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 8391600, size 4203360 (2052 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 555/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 832/ sector 63/ head 239 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) start 12594960, size 1300320 (634 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 833/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 918/ sector 63/ head 239 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 13895280, size 9676800 (4725 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 919/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 239 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message