From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 08:50:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6416916A4CF for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:50:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (unknown [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242CB43D1F for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:50:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 19307 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2004 16:50:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 27 Feb 2004 16:50:47 -0000 Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with SMTP id 55D4B237; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:52:40 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:52:39 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: a@jenisch.at Message-Id: <20040227185239.3ee5a237@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040227162313.GB20903@athena.oekb.co.at> References: <20040227162313.GB20903@athena.oekb.co.at> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple FreeBSD-installations on one harddisk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:50:51 -0000 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