Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:37:16 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <14886.8140.792319.505056@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20001130005552.A93492@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200011290706.eAT76E516121@newsmangler.inet.tele.dk> <20001129122920.E88443@dragon.nuxi.com> <14885.45114.457465.538275@guru.mired.org> <20001130005552.A93492@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> types: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:41:14PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Hmm - what's the stupidity? I have a test machine running both > > -current and -stable > Do you have the two FreeBSD installations on the same disk? If so, I'd > love to hear how you did it. I spoke with others and they also had > problems when trying it sysinstall. I finally did 1 normal install and > then booted that and created the 2nd slice, lable, BSD partitions, etc.. > by hand and then untared the 2nd installation bits. Yup, they're both on the same disk. At this point, I've done that two ways. First was with a system already running -current. I just used a 4.1-RELEASE CD and did a standard install from that - carefully ignoring the slice -current was on, except to mount it's swap instead of allocating one on the -RELEASE slice. Upgrading that to -stable went without a hitch. Later, I had a system running -stable, and wanted to create a -current slice on the same system. Like you, I used the running -stable to create, partition and label a second slice. I then nfs-mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj from a -current system onto the -stable system, and did a "make installworld DESTDIR=/new" from that /usr/src. Then a "make distribution" in /usr/src/etc with the appropriate DESTDIR to get those files installed. Finally tweak the new -current's config files from the running -stable system. I think I had more problems because of differences between the /etc/make.conf files on the -current NFS server and the -stable system than anything else. Again, I set things up with one swap partition shared between the two OSs. I've seen the claim that FreeBSD can swap to a Linux swap partition, but never tested it. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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