Steve Tremblett wrote:
>
> I would think it is reasonable to dual-boot -CURRENT and -STABLE on
> this box. Is this possible on the same hard disk, or will multiple
> hard disks be required for that? I'm thinking that the BIOS should
> complain about multiple partitions of the same type? I'm so out of the
> loop in the PC world that I don't know if that is still a problem :)
one disk (if large enough) is sufficient to boot numerous versions of
FreeBSD (at the very least, one version for each of the 4 BIOS principal
partitions, then even multple versions inside each BIOS partition)
One example :
multi% df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s3a 49583 35384 10233 78% /
devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev
/dev/ad0s3f 724303 399635 266724 60% /usr
/dev/ad0s3e 19815 5559 12671 30% /var
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
/dev/ad0s1a 49583 38531 7086 84% /old_root
/dev/ad0s1f 704495 477161 170975 74% /old_usr
/dev/ad0s1e 19815 14297 3933 78% /old_var
/dev/ad0s2e 15302928 13682913 1007898 93% /files3
multi%
ad0s3 (3rd BIOS part of the first IDE disk) hosts -Current, and ad0s1
hosts -Stable. Shared resources are in ad0s2e (notably -Current sources,
which are built when booted on -Stable)
TfH
you may also want to read carefully one post by Matt Dillon :
<http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+%22DO+NOT+ACCIDENTLY+TRY+TO+INSTALL+THE+-CURRENT+WORLD%22&hl=en&scoring=r&selm=200108281814.f7SIETX34454_earth.backplane.com%40ns.sol.net&rnum=1>
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