From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 23:51:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA0D16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from arnold.neland.dk (0x50c48aec.adsl-fixed.tele.dk [80.196.138.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3323B43D41 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from gina ([192.168.5.103]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id hBMGRAaT060263 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:27:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Message-ID: <027f01c3c8a8$719c8590$6705a8c0@gina> From: "Leif Neland" To: Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:27:08 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Must root be on slice 'a'? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:51:52 -0000 http://geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/freebsd.htm writes this:To install a new FreeBSD system, you must create a new '/' = file system at a minimum. If you do this in a slice with an existing '/' = partition the previous system will become inaccessible. You can normally = tell that there is a previous '/' mounted in the current slice, if any = existing partition name ends in an 'a'.=20 Does this imply that I must rename my slices, that I can't boot from = /dev/ad1s3e ? Leif