From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 3 14:20:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF1137B6AA for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:20:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA19409; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:49:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:49:51 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: snapshots and dual booting Message-ID: <20000303144951.P14279@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:21:29PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jonathon McKitrick [000303 13:54] wrote: > 2 questions: > > I realize it is a moot point now that 4.0 release is near, but is it > safe to use a -current snapshot for everyday use? Can i assume it has > been through at least cursory testing and will do the basic functions > an average user might need without panicing often? It's still -current although it's been really stable for the last month we just had a slight boo-boo where machines without keyboards would panic. This was just for a couple of hours and didn't make it into any of the RC's (release candidates) afaik. > Is it possible to dual-boot 2 versions of FreeBSD? Like -stable and > -current ? I recently discovered Linux only allows this if you use 2 > separate hard drives. yes, you'll have to do some fiddling with the loader's scripts to make sure each install gets it's own / then you should be fine. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message