From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 4 5:30: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3305815354 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 05:29:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA00322; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:29:04 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 255; Wed Aug 4 14:28:28 1999 Message-ID: <37A83222.991D665D@cdsec.com> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:29:22 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Nordier Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD References: <199908031801.UAA01402@m1-18-dbn.dial-up.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Nordier wrote: > > It's usually best to temporarily change fdisk partition types, > so that sysinstall sees no existing FreeBSD slice on the drive. > However, there may be other problems involved here as well. Hmmm. This sounds a good plan. Would the following then work (I'm using `partition' to refer to a fdisk partition, and `file system' to refer to a BSD partition): * I partition my drive into 4 equal partitions (rather than 2; this gives me more future flexibility) * I install 2.2.8 in the first partition. * I change the type to something other than FreeBSD * I install 3.2 into the second partition * I change the type of the first partition back to FreeBSD * I install os-bs or some other boot selector * And now, hopefully, I can simply boot either from the boot selector menu? -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Cequrux Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065/6/7 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data/Network Security Specialists WWW: http://www.cequrux.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message