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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: How to install two FreeBSD releases a single disc? 
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In-reply-to: Mike Smith's message of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 23:11:42 PST" <199812080711.XAA00834@dingo.cdrom.com> 
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 10:03:06 +0000
From: Dominic Mitchell <dom@phmit.demon.co.uk>
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On 7 December 1998, Mike Smith proclaimed:
> > I like to install FreeBSD 2.2.7 (2.2.8) and 3.0 on the same disc.
> > Because the FreeBSD boot loader looks for the first compatibility slice, it
> 's
> > only possible to boot from the first installed release (first slice).
> 
> Install the 'new' bootstrap from 3.0 on both the 2.2 and 3.0 slices.
> See the 'disklabel' manpage; the new bootstrap lives in the files 
> /boot/boot1 and /boot/boot2 on the 3.0 install's root filesystem.

And if you use the NT bootloader like I do, don't forget to update that
as well (c:\bootsect.bsd), otherwise you'll end up in a right pickle...
-- 
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator

``Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.''
		-- Henry Spencer

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