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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.



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