From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 4 11:08:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431FA1065673 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:08:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113F58FC1C for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:08:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=kestrel.milibyte.co.uk) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1JWV04-0000WS-7J; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:08:01 +0000 Received: by kestrel.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JWV02-0001EK-T4; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:07:59 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:07:58 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47A3C37B.10707@tundraware.com> <47CAA5DC.5050700@infracaninophile.co.uk> <47CC4097.9090206@magichamster.com> In-Reply-To: <47CC4097.9090206@magichamster.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803041107.58738.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on kestrel.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: fa89c5ac7a29bb22b45f92edffd6a6ce Subject: Re: So How Hard Is Moving From 6.3 To 7.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:08:06 -0000 On Monday 03 March 2008, Mark Ovens wrote: > Which leads me to ask if there are likely to be any issues with > dual-booting 6.3-STABLE (as of ~1 month ago) and 7.0-RELEASE? I vaguely > recall from way back there being issues with dual-booting multiple > versions of FreeBSD. That's what I'm currently doing. No problems ... yet. I've only been running 7.0 alongside 6.3 for a couple of days so far but I've previously had 6.2 and 6.3 happily living side by side for some time without problems. > Maybe that was when trying to install both in the same slice? > > Mine will be installed on separate hard disks. I'm using 2 different slices on the same drive. > The only thing I could > think may possibly be an issue is the FreeBSD Boot Manager. I'm using grub so perhaps I'm a bit safer in that respect. -- Mike Clarke