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Date:      Fri, 8 Sep 2000 09:54:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: install FreeBSD into another slice
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009080951190.9552-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000908094813.D83632@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Thursday,  7 September 2000 at 11:12:56 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> >
> > I have a machine with FreeBSD 4.1 installed in one slice. Now I want to
> > install a second copy of FreeBSD into another slice on the same machine. I
> > start /stand/sysinstall in the slice already installed and try to install
> > another complete copy of FreeBSD into another slice. Will this work? I
> > usually boot from a CD-ROM and install from it.
> 
> Yes.  Make sure you double check what you're doing, since it's easy
> enough to make a mistake and overwrite the first partition.

Thanks for your reply. I bought a copy of your book. Since the handbook
does not seem very good (See http://www.bsdtoday.com/), I hope you will
write a fourth edition of the book to make it even better.

-Zhihui



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