Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:03:57 +0100 (MET) From: Sander Flobbe <A.R.Flobbe@phys.uu.nl> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need an 'a' partition on both drives, possible? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.981130115820.5019A-100000@ruunat.phys.uu.nl> In-Reply-To: <H000057c01a78e12@MHS>
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > > 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? > > > > 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. > Yes, it works. Apparently, in post-install mode, you cannot create `a' partitions. In (custom) install mode everything worked flawlessly. I can now boot from 0:wd(0,a)kernel or 1:wd(1,a)kernel and this makes me very happy! :-) Thanks, S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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