From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 22 10: 1:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996E21556E for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:01:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22925; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:01:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199908221701.NAA22925@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD installs on one HD? In-Reply-To: from Jason Godfrey at "Aug 22, 99 11:16:44 am" To: godfreja@primenet.com (Jason Godfrey) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:01:42 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message