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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1233 comp.os.386bsd.questions:5947 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!wongm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD, NetBSD coexist and share filesystem! Message-ID: <CExLov.3At@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 09:14:54 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Lines: 29 Hi, After some long thought over the decision of which *BSD to go for, with only 1 PC, I finally make up my mind to try to get both installed on same drive, ie coexsist, BUT, I wish to have both sharing some common filesystem etc. Hopefully, the X stuff, GNU s/w, share s/w, should be able to be shared between the two, so it looks like I will have to have system dependent stuff installed separately for both systems , am I right? So, how about the source for /bin, /etc, /sys, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin (and perhaps others?), does anyone have in mind which of them can be shared without disturbing one another ? ONe of the important issues that concerns me is the new binary for both BSD, something to do with the passwd db or the like, or some some run-time db file ? Are both systems very different on this ? I love both *BSD, and with only 1 PC, I think I have to go for this option. Has anyone done this before ? I will like to hear some suggestions, discussions, opinions, experience etc! I just screwed up my old 386bsd disklabel, and I think it's a good time for me to re-install everything as soon as I retrieve all of the important stuff! Thanks in advance! - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C Wong) -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au