Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:51:24 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Multiple copies of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010320.20512400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> References: <20010319163146.A48439@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/19/01, 2:31:46 PM, Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> 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
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