Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:44:10 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: dual booting -stable & -current Message-ID: <3B59B15A.5C8E8851@herbelot.com> References: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010720210609.A53370@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B59234D.CAADC791@herbelot.com> <p0510100cb77eda3bedf6@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > [SNIP] > > How did you do those two installs though? David is not saying that I don't remember very well : it may well have been done via cloning an existing slice via dump/restore (thus no sysinstall troubles ...) [SNIP] > > Where you have trouble is if you have two dos-style slices defined, > both of type freebsd, and you want sysinstall to install into the > second of those two slices. ^^^^^^ OK, got it : I also installed a 3.5.1 from CD/sysinstall, but it was on the 3rd BIOS partition, where the 4th was also FreeBSD (but situated in the disk *after* ad0s3 which was to be the new boot partition) [SNIP] BTW : thanks for the *detailed* explanation -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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