Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 03:57:20 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: James da Silva <jds@torrentnet.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error installing pine-3.96 Message-ID: <19970403035720.28809@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <12424.859846640@time.cdrom.com> <199703312253.RAA25744@bacardi.torrentnet.com>
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> >For one thing, you can't give it its own partition since only the > >first 0xA5 type partition is booted from and I can't really imagine > >how you'd make multiple versions co-exist in a single partition. > > There are two "hacky" ways to do this relatively easily that I've > implemented in past lives: > > 1. A simple utility reads/writes the partition table, setting the desired > partition to 0xA5, and any other 0xA5 partitions to, eg, 0xA6. Thus you Good, idea, but lets suggest a different ID. OpenBSD now uses 0xA6 for their native partitions. This allows them to mount FreeBSD 0xA5 partitions. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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