STABLE CURRENT on same machine?
I suddenly find myself with a need to use something thta seems to only be supported in 5.1 CURRENT. I've never visited 5.x land before, and I'm a bit warry. I've got a Compaq N410C that's pretty happy in 4 STABLE land, and has a Linux partition. I'm considering blowing away the Linux partition, and replaceing it with 5.1 CURRENT. Any issues (loader etc all) I should know about here? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: STABLE CURRENT on same machine?
I have a dualboot laptop. 4.x and 5.x. (to be honest, I haven't booted 4.x in a couple of months). Just make sure you pick the right partition to boot. --On Monday, November 17, 2003 21:42:02 -0500 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suddenly find myself with a need to use something thta seems to only be supported in 5.1 CURRENT. I've never visited 5.x land before, and I'm a bit warry. I've got a Compaq N410C that's pretty happy in 4 STABLE land, and has a Linux partition. I'm considering blowing away the Linux partition, and replaceing it with 5.1 CURRENT. Any issues (loader etc all) I should know about here? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: STABLE CURRENT on same machine?
I suddenly find myself with a need to use something thta seems to only be supported in 5.1 CURRENT. I've never visited 5.x land before, and I'm a bit warry. I've got a Compaq N410C that's pretty happy in 4 STABLE land, and has a Linux partition. I'm considering blowing away the Linux partition, and replaceing it with 5.1 CURRENT. Any issues (loader etc all) I should know about here? If you use the standard FreeBSD MBR bootstrap program, boot0, and you configure it with the noupdate option (an uncommon configuration) and you have two bootable FreeBSD slices on that disk, then you can boot only one of them without editing the MBR slice table. (Whichever one is the active slice or the first one if neither is active.) This is due to a limitation in the bootstrap design. (There is apparently no convention by which the boot0 program can pass the booted slice number to the boot1 program.) Dan Strick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
