Re: how do people play with different versions of DBSD on the same system?

2005-09-26 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:25:40 -0700 walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Hacker wrote: Bob Bagwill wrote: How are people playing with different versions of DBSD on the same system? [...] - partition and slice your media into many (preferably equal sized) portions... I like to

Re: Warning about installing DragonFly and FreeBSD to same disk

2005-08-26 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:10:14 +0300 Eugene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Pressey wrote: Because DragonFly and FreeBSD have the same partition id (165,) FreeBSD's installer will see the DragonFly partition as a FreeBSD slice. And, *even if you don't set up any BSD partitions

Warning about installing DragonFly and FreeBSD to same disk

2005-08-25 Thread Chris Pressey
Here's something I found out the hard way last night: If you already have DragonFly on a disk (say partition 1) and you want to install FreeBSD on that disk (say partition 2), you have to be very careful. Because DragonFly and FreeBSD have the same partition id (165,) FreeBSD's installer will