From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 4:41:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pump3.york.ac.uk (pump3.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3427937B400; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 04:41:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (ury.york.ac.uk [144.32.108.81]) by pump3.york.ac.uk (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g26CfND21637; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:41:23 GMT Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g26CfM234551; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:41:22 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:41:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Subject: Re: -STABLE and -CURRENT on the same drive? In-Reply-To: <20020306121827.GE20782@sunbay.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:12:14PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > > > I have a laptop which I run STABLE on. I would like to be able to develop > > code under -CURRENT, and so would like to dual boot the machine. I have a > > 2 gig slice which is currently free, barring the 5.0 source. I intend to > > have this slice set as the only slice 5.0 accesses, so /, /var and /user > > will all be on the same slice. Wjhat is the best way of building world > > and kernel so that everything goes into /5.0 as the root partition? > > > You should build as usual, then install with DESTDIR=/5.0. Tanks for that. I suspected it was DESTDIR, but never tried it over an install as during build it seemed to be ignored and compiled to /usr/obj/5.0/ . (ie I assumed that it should build things to /5.0/usr/obj. The source is located on /5.0/usr/src) > > THen, > > how do I get the loader to recognise that is where the kernel lives? I > > realise there is a kerenl option to tell it where to mount root from, but > > am at a loss as to how to load the kerenl from it. > > > I have it deployed on my box. /dev/ad0a is my -STABLE partition, and > /dev/ad0d is my -CURRENT partition. At the boot: prompt, if I need to > load -CURRENT, I simply type: "ad(0,d)". Ah, i'm afraid I've confused slices and partitions. Sorry. ad0s1a is my -STABLE root, ad0s1e is my /5.0 partition. Is it possible to do this, or will I need to repartition? I believe the ad0s1e partition is within the 1024 cylinders requirement. Thanks for your help, Gavin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message