From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 1 14:51:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA15379 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 14:51:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA15370 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 14:51:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA05583; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 14:51:37 -0800 (PST) To: "Niall Smart" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing -current and -stable on the same disk In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Jan 1998 21:40:58 GMT." <19980101214059.496.qmail@ginseng.indigo.ie> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 14:51:37 -0800 Message-ID: <5580.883695097@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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? Nope. The boot code will find and boot from the first 0xa5 type partition found. Jordan