Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 09:54:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install FreeBSD into another slice Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009080951190.9552-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000908094813.D83632@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. Thanks for your reply. I bought a copy of your book. Since the handbook does not seem very good (See http://www.bsdtoday.com/), I hope you will write a fourth edition of the book to make it even better. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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