From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 21 11:40:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E6237B405 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:40:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-21-136.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.21.136]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA28257; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:39:59 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011221133957.01678390@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:39:57 -0600 To: hawkeyd@visi.com, hawkeyd@visi.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD slices on one HDD? In-Reply-To: <200112211744.fBLHig007716@sheol.localdomain> References: <20011221101718.A7266_sheol.localdomain@ns.sol.net> <20011221101718.A7266_sheol.localdomain@ns.sol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 Let me know how it goes as I would like to remove and convert 20GB partition set up the same way that has Win2K... I want to use it to install 4.5-stable on slice ad0s1, but leave 4.4-stable on the second slice, ad0s2. Then evenually replace the ad0s2 with another mount point to be used with 4.5-stable. I'm concerned about doing this procedure without blowing it... At 11:44 AM 12.21.2001 -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: >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 > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message