From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 27 10:30:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (d211.dhcp212-198-26.noos.fr [212.198.26.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E03B37B400 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:30:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from herbelot.com (tulipe.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.5]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA58385; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:30:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3C7D25C3.85B66088@herbelot.com> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:30:27 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Tremblett Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting started with -CURRENT References: <20020227102056.A21989@sjt-u10.cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Tremblett wrote: > > I would think it is reasonable to dual-boot -CURRENT and -STABLE on > this box. Is this possible on the same hard disk, or will multiple > hard disks be required for that? I'm thinking that the BIOS should > complain about multiple partitions of the same type? I'm so out of the > loop in the PC world that I don't know if that is still a problem :) one disk (if large enough) is sufficient to boot numerous versions of FreeBSD (at the very least, one version for each of the 4 BIOS principal partitions, then even multple versions inside each BIOS partition) One example : multi% df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 49583 35384 10233 78% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad0s3f 724303 399635 266724 60% /usr /dev/ad0s3e 19815 5559 12671 30% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /dev/ad0s1a 49583 38531 7086 84% /old_root /dev/ad0s1f 704495 477161 170975 74% /old_usr /dev/ad0s1e 19815 14297 3933 78% /old_var /dev/ad0s2e 15302928 13682913 1007898 93% /files3 multi% ad0s3 (3rd BIOS part of the first IDE disk) hosts -Current, and ad0s1 hosts -Stable. Shared resources are in ad0s2e (notably -Current sources, which are built when booted on -Stable) TfH you may also want to read carefully one post by Matt Dillon : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message