From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 15:29:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFC437B420 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:29:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.148.4]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20011217232927.IVVU10846.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com> for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:29:27 +0000 Received: from boog.goatsucker.org (boog.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.3]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBHNT8n03658 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:29:09 GMT (envelope-from scott@boog.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by boog.goatsucker.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA04453 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:28:36 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:28:36 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: -STABLE and -CURRENT on the same machine Message-ID: <20011217232836.B272@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Like the subject says, I'm setting up a machine that can boot into either -CURRENT or -STABLE (or a -RELEASE, or whatever). The plan is to have the two root partitions on different bootable slices, and to use BootEasy to select which one is used -- people seem to have had success with this method in the past. Question, part 1: which partitions is it reasonable to share between these two installations? Obviously /, /usr (and probably /var) need to be kept separate, but I can't see any harm in sharing swap and /home. What about installed ports/packages under /usr/local? I'd rather not have to install two versions of everything :-( Question, part 2: is my best bet for keeping both installs up-to-date to cvsup each separately, into different directories, or to run a local CVS repo and just checkout whatever I want to build...disk space is not an issue. Thanks in advance, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message