>I am trying to install both 2.2.8 and 3.2 on a single 17Gb HDD, but >am not having much luck. I have tried several approaches, in particular >creating four partitions, the first two for the respective root slices, >the third for swap, and the fourth for the remaining slices. If I create >the first two partitions as small as 50Mb, sysinstall still complains >that it can't make a root slice in the second partition as the boot >loader can't deal with that location. If I create the /usr and /var >slices for the second OS and then say `Use defaults for all' it creates >a 32MB root slice in the second partition, so that seems to get around >the problem, but I can't boot this after the install is done.
Not too sure what exactly you're trying to do here -but how about creating a separate *slice* for the two versions, then go install one version into one slice, carve that slice up into partitions (one for root /usr swap etc.) reboot, then go install the other version into the other slice, carve it up into partitions etc. This way you should have something similar to: da0s1 = FreeBSD 2.2.8, da0s2 = FreeBSD 3.2 AFAIK, wd0a will refer to wd0s1a etc. Hope this helps, but why do you want 2.2.8 ? 3.2 is much better :) - Cillian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
