Packages/Ports problem

[Jimmie Houchin]

Joe Fenton wrote:
>>  Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> 
>>> On Wednesday 10 December 2003 21:45, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
>>>
>>> As an alternative, if you've got a spare i386 box sitting around, 
>>> you could install FreeBSD on that too, and install the i386 cvsup
 >>> package on it. Then use that cvsup to update the sources and
 >>> ports trees (you can share source and ports trees with NFS).
>>
>> Well I have an Athlon 700mhz desktop, which I am considerig switching to
>> FreeBSD after I move some data off of the spare drive.
> 
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/05/09/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
> 
> This shows how to make a dual-boot setup. In this case, he is setting up
> his computer to boot FreeBSD -current  or FreeBSD -release. Use the
> same method to set up FreeBSD i3686 and FreeBSD amd64. I did that
> on my Opteron workstation. If strange things happen in amd64, you can
> reboot into i386 and try to figure things out from there.
> 
> Set up three slices - one for i386, one for amd64, and a common slice.
> 
> This same site has a very good article on setting up your FreeBSD to handle
> kernel panics using the swap partition as has been mentioned a few times
> recently.

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the information. I had seen something somewhere about that 
article but forgot to go read it. I'll definitely take a look.

Jimmie Houchin