From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 30 01:03:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA05647 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 01:03:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (mail.alcatel.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA05638 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 01:03:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id KAA16465; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:54:33 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id JAA05263; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:53:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA10139; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:35:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05191; Mon, 30 Nov 98 09:39:58 +0100 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA053284753; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:32:33 +0100 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 98 09:32:25 +0100 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Subject: Need an 'a' partition on both drives, possible? Mime-Version: 1.0 To: A.R.Flobbe@phys.uu.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Need" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Need" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, If you want FreeBSD on both fisks, you can **install** it (from the floppy boot disk). I have it this way on my home box with 2.2-Stable on one disk and and 3.0-(mostly)-Current on the other. For this, I did two complete installs. HTH TfH > Hi, > > I have two IDE disks (/dev/wd0 and /dev/wd1) and I want both of > them to contain an 'a' partition. Is that possible? > > This is what I do: > * Start from 2.2.7-RELEASE floppy, > * choose post-install > * label /dev/wd1 (compat. mode, entire disk) > * press W for write > * partition /dev/wd1 (with a '/' partition and some others) > * press W for write > > Then the following error (Alt-F2) occurs: > newfs: /dev/rwd1s1a: `a' partition is unavailable > > There is no help on making Compatibility Mode Disks from the > prompt (I love CLI) in the tutorials/handbook/faq. > > The reason I want both drives to have an 'a' partition is > because I want to be able to startup FreeBSD from wd0 or > from wd1, both with their own '/' partition. (I don't > need other OS's) > > I'd appreciate any help/hint/suggestion very much! > (no help in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc) > > S. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message