From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 20 01:19:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA10711 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 01:19:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA10706 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 01:19:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with SMTP id KAA23163; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:19:27 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:19:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: paulo@nlink.com.br cc: dan@math.berkeley.edu, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD & PII In-Reply-To: <199807180329.UAA05935@george.lbl.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > -- building: 27A address: STA-ISIS, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy tel.: +39 332 78 9549 fax.: +39 332 78 9185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message