From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 1 13:37:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA10492 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 13:37:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ginseng.indigo.ie (ts01-13.waterford.indigo.ie [194.125.139.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA10479 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 13:36:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (qmail 497 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Jan 1998 21:40:59 -0000 Message-ID: <19980101214059.496.qmail@ginseng.indigo.ie> From: "Niall Smart" Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 21:40:58 +0000 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing -current and -stable on the same disk Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm interested in installing -current and -stable on the same disk. But around lines 901 of release/sysinstall/label.c: if ((flags & CHUNK_IS_ROOT)) { if (!(label_chunk_info[here].c->flags & CHUNK_BSD_COMPAT)) { msgConfirm("This region cannot be used for your root partition as the\n" "FreeBSD boot code cannot deal with a root partition created\n" "in that location. Please choose another location or smaller\n" "size for your root partition and try again!"); I understand that the BSD_COMPAT flag is set for the first FreeBSD fdisk partition. Is that correct? Is there anyway to install -current and -stable on the same disk, apart from using fdisk to hide one from the other in between reboots? Thanks Niall