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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:30:40 -0700
From:      "Mike" <massey@rmci.net>
To:        "'Graeme Cross'" <gcross@fastmail.fm>, "'Jud'" <judmarc@fastmail.fm>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Dual boot 4.7 and 5.0
Message-ID:  <007801c2d186$55286a10$0500a8c0@data>
In-Reply-To: <20030211035854.77B37243EE@www.fastmail.fm>

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Nice but I have 2 30GIG drives and want to run 4.7 on one and 5.0 on the
other and be able to select either at boot. The article is perfect and
that's what I am trying to do, give feed back on what 5.0 does or does
not and help where I can.

Thanks

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Graeme Cross
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 8:59 PM
To: Jud; Mike; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Dual boot 4.7 and 5.0


On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:07:24 -0500, "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> said:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:45:10 -0700, Mike <massey@rmci.net> wrote:
> 
> > I would like to setup a dual boot 4.7 and 5.0 for testing. The 4.7 
> > is already running. I want to put the 5.0 on the second drive that 
> > BSD see's. Is there anything special I need to do to make the boot 
> > loader see both OS's so I can select which one I want to run? Do I 
> > have the second drive install a bootloader as well or?
> 
> Re your last question, I think the answer's yes.
> 
> For more on running 4.7 and 5.0 together, Google this list and have a 
> look at Daemon News - I believe they had an article on this a while 
> back.

The dual-boot article was by Michael Lucas and can be found at:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/05/09/Big_Scary_Daemons.html

- Graeme


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Graeme Cross
E-mail: gcross@fastmail.fm

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