Date: 20 Aug 2002 19:45:59 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien?= Nephtali <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One disk, one total partition, want to install -CURRENT, mass storage ? Message-ID: <1029872762.224.60.camel@markx.vladsempire.net> In-Reply-To: <20020820164903.GA4621@nebula.wanadoo.fr> References: <20020820164903.GA4621@nebula.wanadoo.fr>
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On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 16:49, Aurélien Nephtali wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on a laptop with one 10GB disk drive, my FreeBSD partition uses the entire > disk. What I want is to install a -CURRENT but I don't want to remove/move/etc > datas on the 10GB disk. I was thinking about installing a -CURRENT on a drive > plugged into an USB to IDE Adapter, but I was told that, because of my poor > BIOS, my laptop wasn't able to boot on a removable disk. Ideas, advice ? > > Thanks. > > -- Aurélien Exactly what CVSUP is for. CVSUP your machine to whatever flavor of 5.0 you want to take your chances with, and rebuild everything. You realize of course that just by running 5.x you are taking your chances with your data.... Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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