From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 15 02:49:54 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2C50EAFB for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 02:49:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from m13-92.163.com (m13-92.163.com [220.181.13.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1250B1F88 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 02:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from shanelinlin$163.com ( [221.5.67.137] ) by ajax-webmail-wmsvr92 (Coremail) ; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:49:42 +0800 (CST) X-Originating-IP: [221.5.67.137] Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:49:42 +0800 (CST) From: shane To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ask for help about installing the gnome or kde on freeBSD 10 X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Coremail Webmail Server Version SP_ntes V3.5 build 20131204(24406.5820.5783) Copyright (c) 2002-2014 www.mailtech.cn 163com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: X-CM-TRANSID: XMGowABn8eXH1f5SSQNRAA--.8642W X-CM-SenderInfo: xvkd0vxolqzxrq6rljoofrz/1tbiLQczGFEFsIb5oAAAs6 X-Coremail-Antispam: 1U5529EdanIXcx71UUUUU7vcSsGvfC2KfnxnUU== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GBK Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 02:49:54 -0000 aGksZGVhciwKICAgSSdtIHNvcnJ5IHRvIGJvdGhlciB5b3Ugc28gbXVjaCxidXQgaSBmYWlsZWQg dG8gaW5zdGFsbGluZyB0aGUgZ25vbWUyIG9uIGZyZWVCU0QxMCBmb2xsb3dpbmcgdGhlIG9mZmlj aWFsIGhhbmRib29rIG9uIGludGVybmV0LG1hbnkgZGlmZmVyZW5jZXMgY29tZSB1cCB0byBtZSAu Y2FuIHlvdSBvZmZlciBleGFjdCBpbnN0YWxsaW5nIGRlc2t0b3Agc3lzdGVtIChnbm9tZSBvciBr ZGUpIGRvY3VtZW50YXRpb24gdG8gbWUgLG1hbnkgdGhhbmtzIHRvIHlvdQ== From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 15 02:54:51 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43675B99 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 02:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from phlegethon.blisses.org (phlegethon.blisses.org [50.56.97.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1ECDC1FF7 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 02:54:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blisses.org (cocytus.blisses.org [23.25.209.73]) by phlegethon.blisses.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 268A51F0083 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:10:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:52:11 -0500 From: Mason Loring Bliss To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing without blowing away GRUB/MBR Message-ID: <20140215025211.GC4472@blisses.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 02:54:51 -0000 Hi, all! I'd very much like to install FreeBSD 10 in some new partitions on an existing system. The existing system has Debian Wheezy on it, and I'd like to install FreeBSD without blowing away GRUB. Does the FreeBSD 10 installer accomodate this desire? What I'm imagining is that I'll end up with a freebsd-boot partition with stage1 and stage2 in it, and then a ZFS partition with everything else. (To throw a curve, I want to set up mirroring, and I assume I want either manually or automatically to end up with an equivalent freebsd-boot partition on the second disk.) Thanks in advance for clues or pointers. I intend, at present, for FreeBSD to consume a decent chunk of my infrastructure, but I want to ease into it, hence my not wanting to blow away existing Linux stuff as yet. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because mason@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson