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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:17:30 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-user@netscum.dk, usenet@tdk.net
Subject:   Re: your mail 
Message-ID:  <14887.2618.576975.938220@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <200012010145.SAA33402@harmony.village.org>
References:  <20001129122920.E88443@dragon.nuxi.com> <200011290706.eAT76E516121@newsmangler.inet.tele.dk> <200012010145.SAA33402@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> types:
> In message <20001129122920.E88443@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes:
> : Except for stupidity in libdisk(I believe) and thus sysinstall, there is
> : no, none, zero reason why one cannot have two installations of FreeBSD in
> : two different slices on the same disk.
> I've done make buildworld/installworld of both -current and -stable
> onto one disk in the 3.x/4.0-current time frame.  It took a lot of
> tweaking, but I was able to boot off either one.  I think that
> booteasy didn't boot the second partition properly and I had to play
> loader games.  Sadly, the disk that had this on it one day started
> thumping, turning it into a rather large paperweight...

FWIW, my system running both -current and -stable off of one disk uses
grub for booting, not booteasy.

	<mike


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