Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:08:43 +0200 From: "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl> To: <hackers@freebsd.org>, "Stephen Hocking" <shocking@houston.rr.com> Subject: Re: Multiple Bootable FreeBSD partitions? Message-ID: <130401c46d89$232263e0$471b3dd4@digiware.nl> References: <200407191211.i6JCB7fY005294@bleep.craftncomp.com>
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From: "Stephen Hocking" <shocking@houston.rr.com> > I'm looking at creating multiple versions of FreeBSD on the one disk - sharing > perhaps one or two filesystems, but with totally separate /, /usr and /var. > Does anyone have a quick way to do this from a clean install? I've done this > under a number of OS's, but can't think how to do it with FreeBSD. FreeBSD itsell come with a selector in the bootsectors. Nothing really fancy, but it works. Not shure if the default is now to use LARGE disks, otherwise readup on boot0cfg and the -o packet option. My system also has w2K and WinXP/amd64, and I wanted a serial bootselector. So I used Grub for this. It is in the ports. --WjW
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