Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:44:42 -0600 (CST) From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) To: hawkeyd@visi.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD slices on one HDD? Message-ID: <200112211744.fBLHig007716@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011221101718.A7266_sheol.localdomain@ns.sol.net> References: <20011221101718.A7266_sheol.localdomain@ns.sol.net>
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My bad to reply to myself, but I did find some info. In article <20011221101718.A7266_sheol.localdomain@ns.sol.net>, hawkeyd@visi.com writes: > > 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? Only one BIOS partition ID. From what I have read, go ahead with the install, and when in 'fdisk', remove ad0s1 (the WinME slice), and replace it with a FreeBSD slice, marking it bootable. The, in 'disklabel', proceed to set up partitions within the new ad0s1 slice as usual. BUT, will the rest of the install correctly put everything in the new ad0s1 slice, and not the existing ad0s2 slice? Then, will, bootEZ will see both FreeBSD partitions, and allow booting either? This I haven't found an answer to. > Furthermore, can either then mount the other slices' partitions? I cannot see why not, unless trying to write to ad0s1 from ad0s2 screws up due to ad0s1 having DIRPREFS and ad0s2 not? Anyone? Is it really this straight-forward, the "Just do it" Nike approach? > TIA, > Dave TIA again, Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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