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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:04:16 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Slices and partitions
Message-ID:  <345A63F0.5E652F78@whistle.com>
References:  <XFMail.971031155451.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>

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Patrick Gardella wrote:
> 
> Help me to make sure I got this right!
> 
> I've got two IDE hard drives
> 
> wd0 is all Windoze 95
> wd1s1 is msdos formatted
> wd1s2 is freebsd
> 
> I'd like to format wd1s1 to be freebsd.  I've used the tutorial on this.
> 
> >From what I understand, the booteasy/something looks in the first FreeBSD slice
> to contain the kernel.  So I can't have the two slices on the same drive, with
> the first one not being /, right?
> 
> Patrick

you can however put another root part there..
use disklabel (or the sysinstall utility)
to put a partition the same size as your root part (or there abouts)
on that part.
then make a filesystem on it (newfs)
and copy everything over to it..
then fix the fstab in its /etc directory,
and reboot.
after rebooting you can reclaim the root on the 2nd slice :)
/tmp?

julian



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