On 2005-09-10 17:29, "Haulmark, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Someone broke the silence: >> I would like to be able to setup a system so that on power up I can >> choose weather to boot into either i386 or amd64. >> Is this possible or would I some how have to install the two >> releases on their own?
> Ask yourself this question. > > I would like to be able to set up a vehicle that I can choose wheather > to use v4 motor or v8 motor. That's so when I toss a car key to this > kid, he will only use the vehicle with V4 motor enabled. When I take > this same car key, I want to use a vehicle with a V8. Can both V4 and > V8 co-exist in a single vehicle? Flawed analogy, if you ask me. Sure you can do what the original poster asked. Solaris 10 does this already in their Core OS distribution, and with a bit of effort you can probably share the same i386 /, /var and /usr filesystem between 2 kernels running from different /boot subdirectories, but you will only be able to use i386 binaries this way (since the amd64 cpus can run i386 binaries too). Booting with two different root partitions and a common /home is ok too, but configuration changes in (say) /etc and other places will have to be synced manually between the two. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
