From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 22 22:51:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA00686 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 22:51:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA00681 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 22:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ocean@wavefront.com) From: ocean@wavefront.com Received: from wavefront.wavefront.com (ocean@ns.wavefront.com [204.73.244.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA08048 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 22:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wavefront.wavefront.com (8.6.10/SMI-4.1.R931202) id AAA02701; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:44:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:44:30 -0500 Message-Id: <199710230544.AAA02701@wavefront.wavefront.com> Apparently-To: questions@freebsd.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk subject Dual Boot I just totally messed up my computer while trying to back up my data for the 2.2.5 release I'll be getting soon. Oh well, I think I can fix that. My question is this: Can I have both v2.2.5 *and* v3.0 FreeBSD on my comp? How would I do this? Could I just load both as entirely different systems on my hard drive? I use the boot manager supplied with FreeBSD, and I would also like to know how to change what it calls the systems. What I mean is that when it loads up, it asks me if I want dos, or bsd. Can I change it so it says something like "Crappy OS" and "FreeBSD v2.2.5" (In case you mis-read that, I was calling Microsoft crap, NOT FreeBSD) Thanks, Michael Porter ocean@wavefront.com port0095@tc.umn.edu