Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:41:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: -STABLE and -CURRENT on the same drive? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0203061236560.34315-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020306121827.GE20782@sunbay.com>
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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
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