From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 18 13:15:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE3E637B410 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 13:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31019 invoked by uid 0); 18 May 2002 20:15:31 -0000 Received: from p50910418.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (HELO mail.gsinet.sittig.org) (80.145.4.24) by mail.gmx.net (mp006-rz3) with SMTP; 18 May 2002 20:15:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 28883 invoked from network); 18 May 2002 17:13:33 -0000 Received: from shell.gsinet.sittig.org (192.168.11.153) by mail.gsinet.sittig.org with SMTP; 18 May 2002 17:13:33 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by shell.gsinet.sittig.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g4IHDW528879 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 18 May 2002 19:13:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sittig) Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 19:13:32 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can Sysinstall now deal with 2 FBSD partitions? Message-ID: <20020518191332.K1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200205172323.TAA68809@mmm1902.dulles19-verio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200205172323.TAA68809@mmm1902.dulles19-verio.com>; from rob@pythonemproject.com on Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:23:54PM +0000 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. 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 On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 23:23 +0000, 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. Since I have a similar setup (along the lines of: ad0s2 -RELEASE /, ad0s3 -STABLE /, ad0s4 swap + -RELEASE /tmp + -RELEASE /var + -RELEASE /usr + -STABLE /tmp + -STABLE /var + -STABLE /usr + common /home) I ran into a similar problem. IIRC sysinstall already stopped me in creating or mounting another root partition if there already was one. Should sysinstall still lack support for this setup (I didn't check back since then), you can circumvent the problem by changing the (BIOS) partition tag or the (BSD) partition name of the existing installation's root partition when installing the second system and restoring its name afterwards. Later on booting one of two ad?s?a partitions hasn't been a problem. See the archives, the question has been asked before. From my sent folder I got these handles to my message, so you should be able to find the thread. Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 20:10:07 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two FreeBSDs on same disk, booting secondary slice? Message-ID: <20011111201007.F39804@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message