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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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