Date: Mon, 30 Nov 98 09:32:25 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: A.R.Flobbe@phys.uu.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Need an 'a' partition on both drives, possible? Message-ID: <H000057c01a78e12@MHS> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.981129210408.16126A-100000@ruunat.phys.uu.nl>
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Hello, If you want FreeBSD on both fisks, you can **install** it (from the floppy boot disk). I have it this way on my home box with 2.2-Stable on one disk and and 3.0-(mostly)-Current on the other. For this, I did two complete installs. HTH TfH > Hi, > > I have two IDE disks (/dev/wd0 and /dev/wd1) and I want both of > them to contain an 'a' partition. Is that possible? > > This is what I do: > * Start from 2.2.7-RELEASE floppy, > * choose post-install > * label /dev/wd1 (compat. mode, entire disk) > * press W for write > * partition /dev/wd1 (with a '/' partition and some others) > * press W for write > > Then the following error (Alt-F2) occurs: > newfs: /dev/rwd1s1a: `a' partition is unavailable > > There is no help on making Compatibility Mode Disks from the > prompt (I love CLI) in the tutorials/handbook/faq. > > The reason I want both drives to have an 'a' partition is > because I want to be able to startup FreeBSD from wd0 or > from wd1, both with their own '/' partition. (I don't > need other OS's) > > I'd appreciate any help/hint/suggestion very much! > (no help in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc) > > S. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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