From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 22 23:41:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20910 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:41:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20805 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:41:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA12759; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:41:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:41:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Porter cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running 3.0 and 2.2.5 In-Reply-To: <3513737A.90950C93@wavefront.com> 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 On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Michael Porter wrote: > Sorry if this is a re-post. I send a letter like this about 6 hours > ago, but haven't seen it posted. I was having problems before wih my > server, so I think it got munched > > I want to run 3.0 on my system, and retain my 2.2.5. > Can I install 3.0 with a root on another slice, and use the same /usr?? > That way, I could default boot from wd0s1 /kernel (2.2.5) and opt to > boot from wd0s2 /kernel (3.0) > or something like that. You will have a heck of a time booting it -- our bootblocks don't allow you to specify what slice you want on a disk, it just picks the first type 165 one it finds. /usr reuse is probably asking for trouble -- ps and top will explode and things will complain about wrong libraries. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message