From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 30 03:04:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA14519 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 03:04:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA14510 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 03:04:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A.R.Flobbe@phys.uu.nl) Received: from ruunat.phys.uu.nl (ruunat.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.69]) by max.phys.uu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7/hjm) with ESMTP id MAA20280 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:03:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (flobbe@localhost) by ruunat.phys.uu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA21295 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:03:57 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: ruunat.phys.uu.nl: flobbe owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:03:57 +0100 (MET) From: Sander Flobbe To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need an 'a' partition on both drives, possible? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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