On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:17:03PM -0600, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:28:44PM +0200, Martin Ammermueller wrote:
> 
> > The subject says it all. Is that possible?
> > sysinst selects always the first partition, regardless
> > of the currently active partition.
> 
> This should be possible, but you'll have to do a lot of the
> installation manually.  You'll probably have to make a single NetBSD
> slice in fdisk, and then use disklabel to create an e (or f, g, or h)
> partition as your alternate root.  Then use installboot(8) to make it
> bootable, and copy all the appropriate files over from the a
> partition.
> 
> When you're all done, you'll be able to select which partition to boot
> from at the NetBSD boot prompt:  The one where it counts down from 5.
> Tell it to boot, for example, from wd0e.

Ok. I'll try that out. Thanks.

> All of this begs the question of why you want to do this.  But it
> should be possible.

CURRENT and STABLE on one HDD, because I have only one HDD at home. 
Anyhow this is possible with Linux and FreeBSD. Without installing
the distribution manually. Perhaps I'll send a PR.

BTW, I supped the sources for CURRENT and STABLE several times now 
and everytime a "make build" breaks, is this normal?


snafu
Martin
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