Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:42:43 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: snapshots and dual booting Message-ID: <20000303164242.T14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003031542440.12473-100000@mammalia.sea>; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 03:44:56PM -0800 References: <20000303144951.P14279@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003031542440.12473-100000@mammalia.sea>
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* R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> [000303 16:21] wrote: > > > 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. You're right, Jordan fixed this after I annoyed him about it. :) I'm pretty sure sysinstall handles the loader config now. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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