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
>> 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
>>
>> My recollection is that as long as you keep the root partitions <2 (or 8) GB
>> it should be bootable. Hence this somewhat strange slicing.
>>
>> Thing is, 4.3R refuses to install it's root on ad0s2 (4.3 because I want
>> to go current from there).
>>
> > I'm probably missing something obvious here?
Somehow I missed the beginning of this thread. I suspect you're
running into the same issue I recently described in a message in
the thread on "Suggestions for sysinstall / disklabel" in -hackers.
I think I sent it in the last two or three days.
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