From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 17:47:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2CF37B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CBD43E4A for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:47:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: from markx.vladsempire.net (12-218-27-215.client.mchsi.com [12.218.27.215]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B6125238; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:47:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: One disk, one total partition, want to install -CURRENT, mass storage ? From: Josh Paetzel Reply-To: friar_josh@webwarrior.net To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien?= Nephtali Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020820164903.GA4621@nebula.wanadoo.fr> References: <20020820164903.GA4621@nebula.wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 20 Aug 2002 19:45:59 +0000 Message-Id: <1029872762.224.60.camel@markx.vladsempire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 16:49, Aur=E9lien Nephtali wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I'm on a laptop with one 10GB disk drive, my FreeBSD partition uses the e= ntire > disk. What I want is to install a -CURRENT but I don't want to remove/mov= e/etc > datas on the 10GB disk. I was thinking about installing a -CURRENT on a d= rive > plugged into an USB to IDE Adapter, but I was told that, because of my po= or > BIOS, my laptop wasn't able to boot on a removable disk. Ideas, advice ? >=20 > Thanks. >=20 > -- Aur=E9lien 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