Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 02:40:02 +0000 From: "Niall Smart" <rotel@indigo.ie> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing -current and -stable on the same disk Message-ID: <19980102024002.18745.qmail@ginseng.indigo.ie>
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On Jan 2, 11:21am, Mike Smith wrote: } Subject: Re: Installing -current and -stable on the same disk > > Crap :( Is this (silly) limitation restricted to the boot code only > > or do you know if it has been made in many places? > > How else would you propose to get around it? Note that this limitation > applies to most operating systems on the PC. Modify the internal console thingy so that you can specify the fdisk partition to boot from, so if you had current on fdisk partition 1 and stable on fdisk partition 2: 0:wd(0,1,a) => boots current 0:wd(0,2,a) => boots stable Isn't this possible? I'm pretty sure Linux can do it. Niall
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