From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 22 17:48:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A6437B419 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 187D5786E6; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 12:18:23 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 12:18:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Mike Meyer , hawkeyd@visi.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD slices on one HDD? Message-ID: <20011223121823.H88202@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <15395.65527.65231.234995@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 21 December 2001 at 23:41:15 -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > >> D J Hawkey Jr types: >>> On Dec 21, at 02:35 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: >>>> I can't answer that. I built my two-BSD hd from sources and installed >>>> that way. >>> Please elaborate. You had to 'newfs' the partitions, right? Then, what, >>> copy the sources into the /usr mountpoint, and build the OS? With what >>> development tools; it's a new slice?? >>> >>> Oh! Wait. You installed the second OS while running the existing OS, >>> right? I don't think I wanna go that route if I don't have to. >> >> Exactly. I had a running -stable system, took a second slice, labeled >> and newfsed it, then cvsup'ed -current sources onto what would >> eventually be /usr/src. Build and install that with DESTDIR set to >> /mnt. There was one last bit to do to install /boot/loader, but that >> was pretty much it. >> >>>>> Then, will, bootEZ will see both FreeBSD partitions, and allow booting >>>>> either? This I haven't found an answer to. > > My experience with booteasy is that it boots from the first / partition > it finds, and that some other boot manager (I use System Commander > for this) is necessary to distinguish them (set one bootable rather > than the other, I think). No, this is incorrect. Booteasy gives you a choice. See my previous message. Greg -- 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