From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 17 12:22:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alicia.nttmcl.com (alicia.nttmcl.com [216.69.69.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2881C37B405 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 12:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jj@localhost) by alicia.nttmcl.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id g4HJMMc15920; Fri, 17 May 2002 12:22:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:22:22 -0700 From: JJ Behrens To: rob , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can Sysinstall now deal with 2 FBSD partitions? Message-ID: <20020517122222.C10541@alicia.nttmcl.com> References: <3CE511EA.624B9494@pythonemproject.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3CE511EA.624B9494@pythonemproject.com>; from rob@pythonemproject.com on Fri, May 17, 2002 at 07:21:31AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I had an older version of -stable and tried to install the -Current > developer release image via my already installed -stable version. (I > could boot from the cd, but then its kernel didn't recognize my CDROM > drive.) So I proceeded with /stand/sysinstall, created a new partition, > and labeled it, and then installed -Current from the CDROM source. But > it went and overwrote my old partition instead of installing on the new > partition. So I cvsup'ed back to -stable. > > Now I see that sysinstall has extra functionality. I am wondering if > the latest sysinstall can deal with multiple FBSD partitions? If not, > this seems like a very basic need that is not there. Hmm, it seems to me that FreeBSD will install itself to whatever you choose for the root partition, etc. When you labelled the disk, are you sure that you used the right BIOS partition? I apologize if this is a stupid question. Cheers, -jj -- Users of C++ should consider hanging themselves rather than shooting their legs off--it's best not to use C++ simply as a better C. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message