Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:19:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> To: paulo@nlink.com.br Cc: dan@math.berkeley.edu, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD & PII Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980720101809.2943M-100000@elect8> In-Reply-To: <199807180329.UAA05935@george.lbl.gov>
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Same here: OS/2, FBSD 2.2.1, FBSD 3.0-SNAP-may-1997. The nice thing is
that the home directories are on a separate partition and can be used in
both version of the opsys.
Nick
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jin Guojun wrote:
> 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.
>
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