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Date:      Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:01:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        godfreja@primenet.com (Jason Godfrey)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Two FreeBSD installs on one HD?
Message-ID:  <199908221701.NAA22925@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.990822111316.25380B-100000@usr04.primenet.com> from Jason Godfrey at "Aug 22, 99 11:16:44 am"

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Jason Godfrey wrote,
> Hello everyone.
> 
> My hard drive just died (at least I think so, I keep on getting dma
> timeoute errors when it accesses the /usr partition.) Before I run out and
> get a new one I have a question about partitioning.

Good thing you kept full backups, right?

> I want to start tracking -current, but I also want 3.2-Release as well. Is
> there any reason why I couldn't make 3 partitions (slices), and have
> 3.2-Release on one and -current on another one.

Nope. The current boot sequence can deal with this. I had 2.2.8-STABLE
and 3.x living on one HDD for while.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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