Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:28:36 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: -STABLE and -CURRENT on the same machine Message-ID: <20011217232836.B272@localhost>
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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
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