Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:51:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: gkaplan <gkaplan@castle.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partitioning Message-ID: <19990929125116.X96948@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37F18382.58B03368@castle.net>; from gkaplan on Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 11:12:02PM -0400 References: <199812270206.DAA19785@qix> <37F0E951.99D97361@castle.net> <37F18382.58B03368@castle.net>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tuesday, 28 September 1999 at 23:12:02 -0400, gkaplan wrote: > Is it possible to install two different versions of freebsd on the > same physical disk? Yes. > For example suppose I wanted to run current and stable but not at > the same time, would the install object? Do you mean sysinstall? I don't think I'd use that. > Could I get around this by a temporary change to the partition type > while doing a second install? Possibly. But I think you could just tell it not to use that slice or partition. I run multiple systems on my test machine, all in the same slice: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 163840 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 307*) / (-CURRENT) b: 163840 163840 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 307*- 615*) / (3.3-STABLE) c: 4194685 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 7884*) (whole disk) d: 163840 327680 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 615*- 923*) / (3.2-STABLE) e: 614400 491520 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 923*- 2078*) /usr (-CURRENT) f: 614400 1105920 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 2078*- 3233*) /usr (3.3-STABLE) g: 614400 1720320 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 3233*- 4388*) /usr (3.2-STABLE) h: 1859965 2334720 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 4388*- 7884*) /home Note that there's no swap there; that's on a different disk. Also, you can use the same swap partition for each system, and in this configuration I use the same /home partition for each system. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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