Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 19:54:51 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: rob@pythonemproject.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can Sysinstall now deal with 2 FBSD partitions? Message-ID: <p0511170fb90b467f7b29@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200205172323.TAA68809@mmm1902.dulles19-verio.com> References: <200205172323.TAA68809@mmm1902.dulles19-verio.com>
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At 11:23 PM +0000 5/17/02, rob@pythonemproject.com wrote: >First slice on the drive is Win2K. My first FBSD slice has >ad0s2a /, ad0s2b swap, ad0s2d /var ad0s2e /tmp ad0s2f /home >and ad0s2g /usr (I'm doing this from memory since I'm at work) > >In sysinstall, I created a new slice and made the exact same >partitions, only they were ad0s3*. I assigned all the mount >points. I left the original ad0s2 mount points as "*". Then >I used the developer release CD as the installation medium. > >And to my surprise, when I booted up, I had -current on ad0s2, >and ad0s3 did not exist. > >Maybe I will try this again, but I am kind of wary. I keep starting to write a reply to you, but then I shy away from saying anything because my knowledge on this is a little out-of-date. However, I would say that you should not try this again if you need to be running on that -stable system (instead of booting off the CD) when you go to install -current on the same disk. Sometime around 4.2-release or 4.3-release I did something similar to what you want to do, and it is certainly doable *if* you have a good understanding of what is going on. But I did it by booting up off the CD, so there was no confusion about which partitions I wanted to work on. You might want to find out how you could boot up off the CD, and have the kernel (from that CD-system) recognize your CD-ROM drive once it is running. It might involve adding something to a floppy. I haven't had to do that, and I don't know what the steps would be. You might also want to check: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/05/09/Big_Scary_Daemons.html and see if that has any information which is helpful to your situation. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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