From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 17 20:29:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11174 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 20:29:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from george.lbl.gov (george-2.lbl.gov [131.243.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11169 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 20:29:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jin@george.lbl.gov) Received: (from jin@localhost) by george.lbl.gov (8.8.8/LBL-ITG) id UAA05935; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 20:29:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 20:29:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Jin Guojun (ITG staff) Message-Id: <199807180329.UAA05935@george.lbl.gov> To: dan@math.berkeley.edu, paulo@nlink.com.br Subject: Re: FBSD & PII Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There is nothing to be worried if you have some free disk space -- (DOS fdisk partition, or called slice under FreeBSD). FreeBSD installation will take care the rest thing for you. I have a disk runs DOS / FreeBSD 2.1.7 / FreeBSD 2.2.6 / FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP. The boot manager will prompt you to boot one of them with F1/F2/F3/F4 key. -Jin :> I'm thinking to start use FBSD 3.0 with multi-processor but I would like :> to have in another partition my good friend FBSD 2.2.6 :-), is this :> possible? Did anyone do this? : :It should be possible in theory, but I anticipate serious problems in :practice. You would have to make sure that you always used the slice :specific disk device names and never the "compatibility" slice. : :For example, your fstab would have to specify one of /dev/sd0s{1,2,3,4}f :instead of /dev/sd0f. I am not sure how you would manage slice :selection during bootstrap, selecting the initial swap partition, and :initial mounting of the root file system. I would worry about disk :utilities (such as the disklabel program) always doing the right thing. :I would worry about the FreeBSD installation process always using the :specified slice. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message