From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 4:59:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alligator.wananchi.com (alligator.wananchi.com [62.8.64.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7716F37B409 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 04:59:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@alligator.wananchi.com) Received: from wash by alligator.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 159mmx-0005ws-00; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:56:51 +0300 Received: from [209.198.248.2] (helo=siafu.iconnect.co.ke) by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14fT72-000JkJ-00 for wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:52:16 +0300 Received: from [212.22.161.3] (helo=ns2.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14fT3O-0004Bd-00 for wash@iconnect.co.ke; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:48:30 +0300 Received: from amavis by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with scanned-ok (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14fT4i-0005Z3-00 for wash@iconnect.co.ke; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:49:52 +0300 Received: from [212.141.53.73] (helo=relay2.inwind.it) by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14fT4e-0005Gn-00 for wash@iconnect.co.ke; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:49:49 +0300 Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.171.156) by relay2.inwind.it (5.1.061) id 3AB643900003A43B; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:49:04 +0100 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:51:24 GMT Message-ID: <20010320.20512400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q References: <20010319163146.A48439@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Multiple copies of FreeBSD Status: RO X-Status: A Lines: 111 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/19/01, 2:31:46 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote regarding Multiple copies of FreeBSD: > Hi > Please allow me to ask a few Qs. I've gotten relatively daft on this ocassion. > Is it possible to run multiple copies of FreeBSD on the same box? > I have a box that already multiboots Windows (F1) and FreeBSD (F2). > This box has more space on some disk that i can still use to have a > backup copy of FreeBSD. > I have 3 disks on this box: > Disk1 --> 20GB Ide (Partition 1 2GB Windows; Partition 2 6GB FreeBSD, Partition 3 12GB Free for use) > Disk2 --> 4GB SCSI (Partition 1 2GB WinNT4.0; Partition 2 2GB Free for= use) > Disk3 --> 1GB SCSI (Free for use) > I'd like to have another copy of FreeBSD running on Disk 2. Is that possible? Hello Odhiambo, A few months ago (erm, more than one year ago), in a private reply letter, a nice knowleadgeable person - rara avis - kindly told me that FreeBSD boot manager could not manage **three** (or more) FreeBSD copies= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message