From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 0:59: 5 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 DCA2D37B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9CF43E6A for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd-q@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7L7xgIK073816; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:59:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7L7xg5m073815; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:59:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:59:42 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Josh Paetzel Cc: Aur?lien Nephtali , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: One disk, one total partition, want to install -CURRENT, mass storage ? Message-ID: <20020821075942.GA73747@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20020820164903.GA4621@nebula.wanadoo.fr> <1029872762.224.60.camel@markx.vladsempire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1029872762.224.60.camel@markx.vladsempire.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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, Aug 20, 2002 at 07:45:59PM +0000, Josh Paetzel typed: > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 16:49, Aur?lien 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 ? I haven't tried this, but if you build a -CURRENT kernel with options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:adXs1a\" where adXs1a is de root partition on your removable disk, you can put this kernel alongside your 4.x kernel on the 10GB disk. When you then manually load this kernel from the OK prompt it will mount the root partition from your removable disk. hope this helps, Ruben > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- Aur?lien > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message