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Date:      Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:44:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: snapshots and dual booting
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003031542440.12473-100000@mammalia.sea>
In-Reply-To: <20000303144951.P14279@fw.wintelcom.net>

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> > Is it possible to dual-boot 2 versions of FreeBSD?  Like -stable and
> > -current ?  I recently discovered Linux only allows this if you use 2
> > separate hard drives.
> 
> yes, you'll have to do some fiddling with the loader's scripts to make
> sure each install gets it's own / then you should be fine.

That's weird, I didn't have to do any fiddling.  I installed both versions
from cdrom.  When I got to the partition editor on the second install, it
made another / automatically; the only thing that was shared was swap.



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