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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, 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



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