From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 3 16:13:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43CB737B535 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:13:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA22376; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:42:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:42:43 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: R Joseph Wright Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: snapshots and dual booting Message-ID: <20000303164242.T14279@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000303144951.P14279@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 03:44:56PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * R Joseph Wright [000303 16:21] wrote: > > > 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. You're right, Jordan fixed this after I annoyed him about it. :) I'm pretty sure sysinstall handles the loader config now. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message