From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 21 8:18:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (breg.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC15A37B405 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:18:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C19E2D0731 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:18:39 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fBLGHIU07358 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:17:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:17:18 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: questions at FreeBSD Subject: Two FreeBSD slices on one HDD? Message-ID: <20011221101718.A7266@sheol.localdomain> Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 I'm sure this has been covered before, but a search came up blank, so please pardon the repeat. My HDD has two slices (aka, DOS primary partitions), ad0s2 being FreeBSD 4.2, and ad0s1 being WinME. I'd like to blow away ad0s1, and install the forth-coming FreeBSD 4.5 in that slice (DOS partition). Does FreeBSD have more than one slice (DOS partition) ID, such that I can have two bootable primary partitions (DOS parlance), and bootEZ (whatever it's called) will let my choose between them, as though FreeBSD were sharing the HDD with some other OS? Furthermore, can either then mount the other slices' partitions? TIA, Dave -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message