From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 30 17:45:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8079B37B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:45:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB11j2Q75547; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:45:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA33402; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:45:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200012010145.SAA33402@harmony.village.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Cc: freebsd-user@netscum.dk, usenet@tdk.net In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:29:20 PST." <20001129122920.E88443@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20001129122920.E88443@dragon.nuxi.com> <200011290706.eAT76E516121@newsmangler.inet.tele.dk> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:45:00 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001129122920.E88443@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : 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. I've done make buildworld/installworld of both -current and -stable onto one disk in the 3.x/4.0-current time frame. It took a lot of tweaking, but I was able to boot off either one. I think that booteasy didn't boot the second partition properly and I had to play loader games. Sadly, the disk that had this on it one day started thumping, turning it into a rather large paperweight... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message