Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:30:27 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting started with -CURRENT Message-ID: <3C7D25C3.85B66088@herbelot.com> References: <20020227102056.A21989@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
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Steve Tremblett wrote: > > I would think it is reasonable to dual-boot -CURRENT and -STABLE on > this box. Is this possible on the same hard disk, or will multiple > hard disks be required for that? I'm thinking that the BIOS should > complain about multiple partitions of the same type? I'm so out of the > loop in the PC world that I don't know if that is still a problem :) one disk (if large enough) is sufficient to boot numerous versions of FreeBSD (at the very least, one version for each of the 4 BIOS principal partitions, then even multple versions inside each BIOS partition) One example : multi% df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 49583 35384 10233 78% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad0s3f 724303 399635 266724 60% /usr /dev/ad0s3e 19815 5559 12671 30% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /dev/ad0s1a 49583 38531 7086 84% /old_root /dev/ad0s1f 704495 477161 170975 74% /old_usr /dev/ad0s1e 19815 14297 3933 78% /old_var /dev/ad0s2e 15302928 13682913 1007898 93% /files3 multi% ad0s3 (3rd BIOS part of the first IDE disk) hosts -Current, and ad0s1 hosts -Stable. Shared resources are in ad0s2e (notably -Current sources, which are built when booted on -Stable) TfH you may also want to read carefully one post by Matt Dillon : <http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+%22DO+NOT+ACCIDENTLY+TRY+TO+INSTALL+THE+-CURRENT+WORLD%22&hl=en&scoring=r&selm=200108281814.f7SIETX34454_earth.backplane.com%40ns.sol.net&rnum=1>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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