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Date:      Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:47:24 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, Michael.Ranner@netway.at
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to install two FreeBSD's on one disc?
Message-ID:  <19981207194724.D12688@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <H000057c01ab2969@MHS>; from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr on Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 08:55:52AM %2B0100
References:  <XFMail.981205093110.Michael.Ranner@netway.at> <H000057c01ab2969@MHS>

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On Monday,  7 December 1998 at  8:55:52 +0100, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote:
>> How can I install Relase 2.2.7 and Release 3.0 on one IDE disc.
>>
>> I've installed 2.2.7 and 3.0 and now I can only boot from the first
>> slice.
>>
>> Is there known workaround? Could I temporary modify the disklabels
>> or fdisk information to boot from another slice on the same disk?
>
> You just can't for the moment have two FreeBSD on the same disk.
> There is an evolution for the bootloader to allow such a combination, but
> it is neither in 2.2.8 nor in 3.0

Sure you can.  On my machine razzia.lemis.com (3.0) or
daemon.lemis.com (2.2.7), I do it by booting from a different slice.
Here's razzia:

$ df
Filesystem  1024-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0s1a       38991    28971     6901    81%    /
/dev/sd0s1e       38991    22248    13624    62%    /Root
/dev/sd0s1f      921679   766309    81636    90%    /Usr
/dev/sd0s1g      921951   814421    33774    96%    /usr

I get this by booting from /dev/sd0s1a.  If I boot from /dev/sd0s1e, I
get daemon, and the file system names are:

/dev/sd0s1a       38991    28971     6901    81%    /Root
/dev/sd0s1e       38991    22248    13624    62%    /
/dev/sd0s1f      921679   766309    81636    90%    /usr
/dev/sd0s1g      921951   814421    33774    96%    /Usr

Greg
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