On 17/03/2020 12:58, Florian Limberger wrote: > On 16.03.20 23:33, Chris wrote: > >> For the record. I'm *only* using FreeBSD in this situation. I >> only mentioned Windows above, for the use of it's boot manager. > > If you only use FreeBSD, and also use ZFS, you might find beadm[1] > interesting. > > [1]: https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/beadm > Did you know that the system now comes with bectl(8) which is very similar to beadm? As far as I can tell, the biggest difference is that if you have more than one ZFS in your boot environment then: beadm create FOO is actually equivalent to bectl create -r FOO ie. turning on the recursive functionality in bectl. However, this is not really what the OP was asking about. As I understand it, they were looking for something that would allow choosing between several independent installations of different versions of FreeBSD, rather than having multiple environments in the same installation. You can achieve pretty much the same effect though -- there is a boot menu option to switch between BEs. You would have to manage any ported software between the different OS versions, perhaps by including /usr/local and /var/db/pkg are both parts of your BEs. Cheers, Matthew
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