Multiple FreeBSD-installations on one harddisk?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:23:13 +0100
a at jenisch.at wrote:

> 
> In order to run two (different) versions of FreeBSD on one Harddisk
> (4.9 and 5.2) are there any special caveats/pitfalls besides having a
> separate slice for every installation?

If you want to be able to access 5.2 partitions from 4.9 you should use
UFS1 on both (the default being 2 for 5.x). Try browsing sys/ufs cvs or
cvs-src@ arvhives, I vaguely remember a commit about a flag to help fsck
for this kind of setup.
 
> Anything special to take care of during installation (esp. when
> installing the second FreeBSD?)
> 
> Is it possible to use the same swap-partition for both instances of
> BSD? 

Yes. You should however pay attention to core's produce but the other
installation.


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