Louis A. Mamakos writes: > > I dunno if this has come up before or not, but thought I would ask. > > I've got one of the litle soekris net4501 boards that I use as a > router/firewall/NAT box, and it works really good. I have a stripped > down FreeBSD system that I run in a 16MB partition on an 32MB Compact > Flash card plugged into the net4501. Actually, I have two 16MB > slices, and my goal is to be running from one, and installing > the "next" version into the second slice. That way, if the new one > distribution screws up, I can back-out to the older on on the other > partition. > > That problem is that I have to generate a distribution with the > right /etc/fstab to reflect which of the two slices it will > be installed into, which is ugly. What would be Really Nice is > a version of the "compatibility" disk devices which would be > associated with the "active" slice that was booted from, rather > than the first FreeBSD slice found on the disk. This seems like > one mechanism to get what I want. Unfortunately, this information > doesn't seem to get propagated up to the slice code from what I can > tell. > > Any suggestions on alternative mechanisms? I usually swap whole partitions. For example label:
The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 254016, size 254016 (124 Meg), flag 80 (active) The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 254016 (124 Meg), flag 0 and: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 254016 (124 Meg), flag 80 (active) The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 254016, size 254016 (124 Meg), flag 0 on the same disk. -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message