From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 29 17:41:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BCEF337B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:41:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13369 invoked by uid 100); 30 Nov 2000 01:41:14 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14885.45114.457465.538275@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:41:14 -0600 (CST) To: current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-user@netscum.dk, usenet@tdk.net Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20001129122920.E88443@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200011290706.eAT76E516121@newsmangler.inet.tele.dk> <20001129122920.E88443@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien types: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:06:14AM +0100, News User wrote: > > I'm building news machines with two partitions for OSen, to allow > > me to boot into my choice, where my choice has been FreeBSD-STABLE > > or FreeBSD-CURRENT to see how the two compare, and if there are any > > significant improvements in -CURRENT. > > > > I know, ``don't do that'' but hey... > Except for stupidity in libdisk(I believe) and thus sysinstall, there is > no, none, zero reason why one cannot have two installations of FreeBSD in > two different slices on the same disk. Hmm - what's the stupidity? I have a test machine running both -current and -stable (and NetBSD-current, Solaris, Linux, and last and least Win98), and haven't encountered any problems with it.