Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:43:44PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, 4.0 is here so time for my second annual reinstall on my notebook. i have come to the conclusion that it would be nice to have a production system and a development system. i need a stable system to work with

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-15 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi frantisek, or any other ideas to have 2 systems on one? :) I use USB hard drives for just this purpose. HTH... Nico

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Now let us come to disklablels. There is one disklabel per disk, not one disklabel per DOS partition. The DOS partitions come into play only while the BIOS is booting After that, the DOS partitions can contain any nonsense you like. I suspect you'll do better with

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:05:17AM -0600, Tony Abernethy wrote: There is one disklabel per disk, not one disklabel per DOS partition. The DOS partitions come into play only while the BIOS is booting After that, the DOS partitions can contain any nonsense you like. I suspect you'll do

multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-14 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, 4.0 is here so time for my second annual reinstall on my notebook. i have come to the conclusion that it would be nice to have a production system and a development system. i need a stable system to work with (stable packages i don't have to manually compile, etc, etc.) on the dev

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/11/14 21:43, frantisek holop wrote: i am not an mbr/disklabel guru, but it seems to me that it all comes down to disklabel becasue i can have 4 primary partitions, but if i interpret it correctly, i can't have seperate 'a' and 'b' (and so on) for all of these primary partitions, now

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-14 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:43:44PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, 4.0 is here so time for my second annual reinstall on my notebook. i have come to the conclusion that it would be nice to have a production system and a development system. i need a stable system to work with

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-14 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:16:24PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:43:44PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, 4.0 is here so time for my second annual reinstall on my notebook. i have come to the conclusion that it would be nice to have a production system and

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-14 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:43:44PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, 4.0 is here so time for my second annual reinstall on my notebook. i have come to the conclusion that it would be nice to have a production system and a development system. i need a stable system to work with