From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 3 15:51:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8203037B699 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:51:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from ip125.r12.d.bel.nwlink.com (ip125.r12.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.175.125]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA29325; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:50:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:44:56 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: snapshots and dual booting In-Reply-To: <20000303144951.P14279@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is it possible to dual-boot 2 versions of FreeBSD? Like -stable and > > -current ? I recently discovered Linux only allows this if you use 2 > > separate hard drives. > > yes, you'll have to do some fiddling with the loader's scripts to make > sure each install gets it's own / then you should be fine. That's weird, I didn't have to do any fiddling. I installed both versions from cdrom. When I got to the partition editor on the second install, it made another / automatically; the only thing that was shared was swap. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message