Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:06 PM -0700 7/20/01, David O'Brien wrote: >The way to do this, is first install -stable. >[...] > >Now install -current in the normal way. >[...] > >You might be able to optimize the number of times booting from >CDROM to change the partition type of ad0s1. It occurs to me that it is actuall

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > 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

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 06:54:54PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > This indeed fixed it. I always though Unix^WFreeBSD was supposed to allow > you to shoot yourself in the foot. sysinstall obviously decided it needed > to outsmart me. Not so much out smart you, but the code that maps da0a to da0sXa i

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:06:09PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > 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

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread Thierry Herbelot
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 t

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread Terry Lambert
David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > 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 > >

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:38 AM +0200 7/21/01, Thierry Herbelot wrote: >David O'Brien wrote: > > You are getting bit by the "root" aliasing code (IIRC this is the > > right way to describe the problem). This makes it impossible to > > install multiple copies of FreeBSD on a single disk w/o hacking > > around the

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-20 Thread Thierry Herbelot
David O'Brien wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > 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 >

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:06 PM -0700 7/20/01, David O'Brien wrote: >On Fri, Jul 20, 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Thing is I want to setup a dual-boot box, running -stable & -current. > > >> What I did is create >> ad0s1 -> 256MB -> holds root for -stable >> ad0s2 -> 256MB -> was supposed to hold root for

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-20 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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 roo

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-20 Thread Mike Meyer
Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:32 PM +0200 7/20/01, Thierry Herbelot wrote: >Wilko Bulte wrote: >> >> 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 >> ad0s

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-20 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:32:48PM +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > 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 cr

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-20 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Wilko Bulte wrote: > > 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

dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-20 Thread Wilko Bulte
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 -