From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 20 19: 8:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF23037B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:08:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 93730 invoked by uid 100); 21 Jul 2001 02:08:45 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15192.58413.140597.213683@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:08:45 -0500 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual booting -stable & -current In-Reply-To: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte types: > I'm probably completely dim today so please bear with me :/ > Thing is I want to setup a dual-boot box, running -stable & -current. > This box, a P2/266 has a 30G IDE disk. > > What I did is create > ad0s1 -> 256MB -> holds root for -stable > ad0s2 -> 256MB -> was supposed to hold root for -current > ad0s3 -> roughly 14G holds tmp,var,usr,usr/obj for -stable > ad0s4 -> ditto for -current > > Thing is, 4.3R refuses to install it's root on ad0s2 (4.3 because I want > to go current from there). If you've already got -stable installed on ad0s1, why not mount the -current partitions on your -stable system, and then build and install those on -current? I just did mine that way to begin with, and thus avoided any problems with sysinstall. If you're tight on disk space - though it doesn't look like you are - you can save a bit by using the same swap partition for both systems. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message