Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 01:35:38AM +0200, root wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >       I'd like to have to NetBSD system on the same
> > box with only one HD, one for a test environment and
> > one for a everyday use. Questions:
> > - is it possible?
> > - is the 2nd installation straightforward? (I suppouse it's not)
> > - must Disklabels be kept in sync?
> > - is it sufficient to change the active slice to choose the
> >   system to boot from?
> 
> It's certainly possible but I don't think it'll be straitforward.
> You can't have 2 NetBSD slices on the same disk (one possible thing would be
> to change "MBR_PTYPE_NETBSD" in disklabel_mbr.h and recompile a whole system,
> including install floppies).

What do you mean by you can't? What is going to happen exactly?
if the problem is only that of the installation program I could follow 
Fredrick suggestion...

> So I would install 2 systems on the same slice (say, root of the first
> is wd0a, and root of the second sd0g) - this way, disklabels are in sync
> and you can easily share swap partition. But the installer won't let
> you do an install with root on wd0g, you'll have to install by hands (newfs
> the partition then extract the sets by hand and config /etc).

By the way... IMHO it would be so nice to have a shell script for the installation
procedure: it would be much more easy to keep track of what the installation
program is expected to do and to keep track of changes...
Just my small entry for the wish list.

> To boot the kernel on wd0g, just type 'boot wd0g:netbsd' from the
> boot prompt.
> 
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> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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