Installing two versions of FBSD on one disk

K Anderson freebsduser at attbi.com
Thu May 8 03:15:58 PDT 2003



Gavin Kenny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way of installing a second copy of FBSD
> on a second slice/partition of a hard disk? I have a
> spare partition but when I go to install the label
> manager sees both slices (to be expected)and does not
> let me create another root partition.
> 
> I want two copies so I can keep one stable and tweak
> the other.
> 
> I've have done some searching but not found anything.
> 
> thanks for your help
> 
> Gavin
> 
> p.s. could you cc this address as I am no longer
> subscribed to the list.

What luck, I happen to be poking about onlamp.com's website and found 
this little gem.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/05/09/Big_Scary_Daemons.html there.

HTH




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