Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:34:26 -0500 From: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: evil idea Message-ID: <2fd864e0710262134u6ea0fb97offb687fe68e4e420@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2fd864e0710262134n3801404ewf8861730b760a9d9@mail.gmail.com> References: <4722BBC8.9060902@gmail.com> <2fd864e0710262134n3801404ewf8861730b760a9d9@mail.gmail.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> Date: Oct 26, 2007 11:34 PM Subject: Re: evil idea To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> On 10/26/07, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > I am running amd64 8-CURRENT and there are a few i386 only ports that I > absolutely must have installed and at the same time since I have 4 GB of > RAM all kinds of bizarreness is created if I "downgrade" to i386. So > here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine > (with less then 2GB or RAM) and install i386 8-CURRENT on it (I want to > use -CURRENT for all my installs) > > Any thing I should watch out for here (I know I need to use NFS or > something like it to share files between the host and guest OS's) > There's actually a known system that will work for this. You can use your existing swap partition, as an "extra" root partition, installing there, then booting to that, then rebuild/install to your original partition. Its the same basic idea as the method for updating from 4.x->7.x, and should be on the lists. (Note to docs, might be worth putting it somewhere.) --- Harrison
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