Is it possible to install a side-by-side DragonFlyBSD with FreeBSD 5?

Wed Mar 31 08:33:28 PST 2004

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:20:01PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> Hi, Gang
> 
> I'm planning to install a DragonFlyBSD on my own test box, which
> already have FreeBSD 5-CURRENT installed on it.
> 
> I hope I can have a side-by-side installation of DragonFlyBSD
> from source code, because I have reserved half of the hard disk
> for DragonFlyBSD and a running FreeBSD 5-CURRENT copy.

The easiest solution is to fetch the live-CD and just copy it to the
hard-disk. Afterwards chroot into it, maybe create the device entries,
install the sources and do the normal "make buildworld buildkernel" etc.
cycle.

Joerg

> 
> Thanks in advance!
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