From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 5 8:23:43 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 9C69B14DF6 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:23:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA03914; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:19:35 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 3901; Thu Aug 5 17:19:05 1999 Message-ID: <37A9AB98.DE7967CF@cdsec.com> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:19:52 +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: <199908041726.TAA09478@cdsec.com> 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: > > > I assume that if I set the gemoetry in fdisk to be the BIOS figures, > > that I will lose the other half of the disk? > > Use 2096/255/63 in sysinstall. That worked! Here is what I did in the end: * set the BIOS disk type to Auto detect in LBA mode * booted 2.2.8 install diskette. Set the disk geometry in fdisk to 2096/255/63. * created three slices. The first two were both 3Gb, a bit smaller than I would have liked, but they both fit within the 1023 logical cylinder boundary. The third slice contained the remaining 10Gb+. About 5Mb of unused space was left at the end. * installed 2.2.8 into partition 1. * booted 2.2.8, and used fdisk to set the disk type to 6 * booted the 3.2 install disk. Checked the geometry settings were the same in fdisk, and set the second slice to be the active partition * installed 3.2 in the second slice * booted 3.2, and used its fdisk to set the partition type of the first slice back to 165 * booted a DOS diskette, and installed os-bs. The changing of the partition type was a necessary step; without this, the 3.2 install would still complain and refuse to make the root file system. Thanks for the help, Robert. Hopefully the summary above will be useful to others as well. g. -- 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