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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!easix!knobel!andreas From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) Subject: Re: Experiences with OS/2 w/ (Linux or 386BSD) Organization: Andreas Klemm, D-4040 Neuss 21 References: <1993May27.140944.14773@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> Message-ID: <1993May30.144110.5624@knobel.GUN.de> Date: Sun, 30 May 93 14:41:10 GMT Lines: 39 In <1993May27.140944.14773@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> psteckle@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler) writes: |I run OS/2 2.0 (soon to be 2.1) on a 386/33 clone. I'd |like to add some variety of UN*X to my setup. |What kind of experiences have people had getting Linux |or 386BSD (or NetBSD) to coexist with OS/2? The Linux FAQ mentions |how it can be installed with Boot Manager. The 386BSD FAQ |doesn't really say anything about how to do this. |I have 2 hard disks (200 + 250 Mb). How much disk space is |required by Linux or BSD, and do they have to reside on the |same disk as OS/2? DOS and 386bsd coexists fine. I think OS/2 isn't different to DOS concerning this case. 386bsd's install program detects free space on your hard disk and asks you, how much you want for bsd. Then a dos compatible partition entry will be made. But this default installation provides only 5 Mb swap, which is certainly to less if you want to run X11 or so. NetBSD's install program isn't compatible with the dos format of the partition table. It overrides it. Installing NetBSD first and then dos isn't possible. After that the DOS 5.0 fdisk finds bo free disk space for a DOS Partition, although there is ;-( Perhaps it's a special gag when having scsi drives/controller ? But I think it's not. Other thoughts ? -- ---- Andreas Klemm ------- /////// andreas@knobel.GUN.de \\\\\\\ private : +49 2137 12609 D-4040 Neuss 21 (Norf), Germany at work : +49 2173 3964 161 Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Telefax : +49 2173 3964 222 Abteilung Unix Support, D-4019 Monheim