From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 12:43:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3BC637B401 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 54742 invoked by uid 100); 24 Jun 2001 19:43:50 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15158.17142.917694.732245@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 14:43:50 -0500 To: parv Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 freebsd slices on 1 disk. possible? In-Reply-To: <55542456@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 parv types: > 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 I don't know if you found me asking about it or saying it worked, but it works. In fact, right now I'm using a -stable system to compile the -current system on that box, as the installed -current is to badly broken to build. > 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. Well, if both systems meet the criteria for booting, you can boot them both. And cross-mount them. I even set up the second one to use the swap of the first one. > 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? I'm pretty sure I did it that way at least once. You can also install from sources on the running system after you've mounted the file systems for the second one. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message