From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Apr 3 03:57:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA17655 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 03:57:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [128.120.175.23]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA17650 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 03:57:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (dav1-15.calweb.com [207.211.82.15]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id EAA23613; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 04:02:11 GMT Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA05765; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 11:57:20 GMT Message-ID: <19970403035720.28809@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 03:57:20 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: James da Silva Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error installing pine-3.96 References: <12424.859846640@time.cdrom.com> <199703312253.RAA25744@bacardi.torrentnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.68 Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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)