Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 12:15:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> Cc: questions at FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD slices on one HDD? Message-ID: <20011223121513.F88202@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20011221101718.A7266@sheol.localdomain> References: <20011221101718.A7266@sheol.localdomain>
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On Friday, 21 December 2001 at 10:17:18 -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > I'm sure this has been covered before, but a search came up blank, so > please pardon the repeat. > > My HDD has two slices (aka, DOS primary partitions), ad0s2 being FreeBSD > 4.2, and ad0s1 being WinME. I'd like to blow away ad0s1, and install the > forth-coming FreeBSD 4.5 in that slice (DOS partition). > > Does FreeBSD have more than one slice (DOS partition) ID, such that I can > have two bootable primary partitions (DOS parlance), and bootEZ (whatever > it's called) will let my choose between them, as though FreeBSD were > sharing the HDD with some other OS? Yes. This works with no problems. On one test machine, I have four FreeBSD partitions. Note that you don't have to make *any* of them bootable. Booteasy will give you a choice like this: F1: FreeBSD F2: FreeBSD F3: FreeBSD F4: FreeBSD Just select the one you want (and find a way of remembering which is which :-) > Furthermore, can either then mount the other slices' partitions? Yes. My laptop has: Filesystem 1048576-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s2a 1982 1219 604 67% / procfs 0 0 0 100% /proc /dev/ad0s3a 1982 1595 227 87% /smpng /dev/ad0s4e 7939 7249 55 99% /home I see there's been a lot of discussion on this matter, and I may find something else to respond to, but in general there's no complication. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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