Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:52:39 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: a@jenisch.at Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple FreeBSD-installations on one harddisk? Message-ID: <20040227185239.3ee5a237@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040227162313.GB20903@athena.oekb.co.at> References: <20040227162313.GB20903@athena.oekb.co.at>
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:23:13 +0100 a@jenisch.at wrote: > > In order to run two (different) versions of FreeBSD on one Harddisk > (4.9 and 5.2) are there any special caveats/pitfalls besides having a > separate slice for every installation? If you want to be able to access 5.2 partitions from 4.9 you should use UFS1 on both (the default being 2 for 5.x). Try browsing sys/ufs cvs or cvs-src@ arvhives, I vaguely remember a commit about a flag to help fsck for this kind of setup. > Anything special to take care of during installation (esp. when > installing the second FreeBSD?) > > Is it possible to use the same swap-partition for both instances of > BSD? Yes. You should however pay attention to core's produce but the other installation. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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