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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!bnr.co.uk!bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nott!torn!utnut!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!nstn.ns.ca!nntp-user From: jcooper@nstn.ns.ca Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: OS/2 Boot Manager and *IX systems. Date: 4 Dec 1994 15:37:36 -0400 Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network Lines: 22 Sender: news@nstn.ns.ca Message-ID: <3bt5q0$j1@Owl.nstn.ca> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.941128205616.6997E-100000@hgc.edu> Reply-To: jcooper@nstn.ns.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: owl.nstn.ns.ca X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.03 >I just installed OS/2 Warp in a boot manager mode. I don't know diddly about >freeBSD or LINUX but I'd like to try them out just to have something cool >in my configuration. >Has anyone tried this out? Does it seem completely impossible (I really >don't know how much these OS' need to take over your machine). I currently run DOS/Windows (rarely!:-), OS/2 Warp and Linux on the same system. The only "gotcha" to worry about is that it is best to make the partitions you need for Linux (and, I assume, for other *IX systems) under OS/2 and set up Boot Manager before installing the various systems. >If it is possible.... Which one would you recommend? I'm familiar with UNIX >(although not sysadmin stuff). I wouldn't do it if I had to switch the >whole box over, but I'd like to try messing around with it. If you're using the FAT file system under OS/2 or are using DOS and you are not using disk compression software of any sort, you could install some of the newer versions of Linux with the "USMSDOS" file system -- a sort of FAT system extension which coexists peacefully with DOS and OS/2. That way you could try out Linux without repartitioning.