Re: updating direct from 5 to 9?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 05:16:19PM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> On a fresh install, with a custom compiled 9.3 with the setting of
> DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR and perhaps DKWEDGE_METHOD_BDSLABEL also (I'm not
> sure), I was unable to boot, because since the disk numbering
> depended on the booting options (I was testing with several systems:
> one Debian and one NetBSD on a disk; and another NetBSD, alone, on
> another disk), my fstab was immune from a remapping of drives with:

The best solution to share a disk for multiple installs is to use GPT
and use NAME=... syntax in /etc/fstab. This should be created by 
default with the 9.3 installer already, and if you select each individual
partition in the installer and set the label option, you can even get
nice names there.

But I probably misunderstood the issue you saw.

Martin