Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:08:45 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual booting -stable & -current Message-ID: <15192.58413.140597.213683@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> types: > I'm probably completely dim today so please bear with me :/ > Thing is I want to setup a dual-boot box, running -stable & -current. > This box, a P2/266 has a 30G IDE disk. > > What I did is create > ad0s1 -> 256MB -> holds root for -stable > ad0s2 -> 256MB -> was supposed to hold root for -current > ad0s3 -> roughly 14G holds tmp,var,usr,usr/obj for -stable > ad0s4 -> ditto for -current > > Thing is, 4.3R refuses to install it's root on ad0s2 (4.3 because I want > to go current from there). If you've already got -stable installed on ad0s1, why not mount the -current partitions on your -stable system, and then build and install those on -current? I just did mine that way to begin with, and thus avoided any problems with sysinstall. If you're tight on disk space - though it doesn't look like you are - you can save a bit by using the same swap partition for both systems. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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