From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 6:57:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A4037B422 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA21691; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 09:57:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 09:54:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install FreeBSD into another slice In-Reply-To: <20000908094813.D83632@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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