From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 21 9:44:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (d211.dhcp212-26.cybercable.fr [212.198.26.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF4537B403 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 09:44:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.com (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08826; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:43:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3B59B15A.5C8E8851@herbelot.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:44:10 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: dual booting -stable & -current References: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010720210609.A53370@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B59234D.CAADC791@herbelot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn wrote: > [SNIP] > > How did you do those two installs though? David is not saying that I don't remember very well : it may well have been done via cloning an existing slice via dump/restore (thus no sysinstall troubles ...) [SNIP] > > Where you have trouble is if you have two dos-style slices defined, > both of type freebsd, and you want sysinstall to install into the > second of those two slices. ^^^^^^ OK, got it : I also installed a 3.5.1 from CD/sysinstall, but it was on the 3rd BIOS partition, where the 4th was also FreeBSD (but situated in the disk *after* ad0s3 which was to be the new boot partition) [SNIP] BTW : thanks for the *detailed* explanation -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message