From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 17:18:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B250A37B423 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:18:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e880ID193518; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 09:48:13 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 09:48:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install FreeBSD into another slice Message-ID: <20000908094813.D83632@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:12:56AM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 11:12:56 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > I have a machine with FreeBSD 4.1 installed in one slice. Now I want to > install a second copy of FreeBSD into another slice on the same machine. I > start /stand/sysinstall in the slice already installed and try to install > another complete copy of FreeBSD into another slice. Will this work? I > usually boot from a CD-ROM and install from it. Yes. Make sure you double check what you're doing, since it's easy enough to make a mistake and overwrite the first partition. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message