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From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro>
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Subject: Re: Dual-boot FreeBSD 4.x/5.x
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:10:38 -0800
"Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each
> using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for
> example?  I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be
> able to easily go back to 4.9 if I find it too unstable.

Not for /, /var, /usr. To many things differ. See the last two week
archives, it has been discussed recently.


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