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Date:      Fri, 8 Sep 2000 09:48:13 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: install FreeBSD into another slice
Message-ID:  <20000908094813.D83632@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009071108280.5406-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:12:56AM -0400
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009071108280.5406-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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On Thursday,  7 September 2000 at 11:12:56 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
> I have a machine with FreeBSD 4.1 installed in one slice. Now I want to
> install a second copy of FreeBSD into another slice on the same machine. I
> start /stand/sysinstall in the slice already installed and try to install
> another complete copy of FreeBSD into another slice. Will this work? I
> usually boot from a CD-ROM and install from it.

Yes.  Make sure you double check what you're doing, since it's easy
enough to make a mistake and overwrite the first partition.

Greg
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