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> > The current setup that I use is a 32MB compact flash card, with
> > two slices.  I alternate between them so I can always easily revert
> > to the previous version if something bad happens when doing an
> > upgrade.
> 
> Hmm, that's another good idea - how to you choose which slice to boot?
> By intervening manually and telling the bootstrap loader which slice to
> boot?

I Just used the normal freebsd boot0 boot block.  It's set to default
to one slice or another and part of the install process is to change
the default.

The much more interesting problem is having the slice that just booted
figure out which slice it's on, and then cobble up an /etc/fstab that
makes sense.  I tried to avoid having the generation process of a
new image have to know what slice it was going to be installed on.

louie


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