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From: hrnjad@spock.m.isar.de (Muharem Hrnjadovic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Q: BSDI & Linux cohabitation
Date: 11 Jan 1995 07:43:48 +0100
Organization: Double venus
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Message-ID: <3evunl$eh@Spock.m.isar.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: spock.m.isar.de

I am running BSD/386 rel. 1.1 from BSDI on my i486-PC currently and plan
to install Linux on it as well. I would like to install the two OSs in such
a way that they share two FDISK-partitions on my harddisk. The harddisk
would be partitioned like shown below:

	FDISK_1: Linux-Root & Swap
	FDISK_2: BSD/386-root & Swap
	FDISK_3: user
	FDISK_4: news

After booting one of the OSs from the respective partition it should be able
to mount and use the user- and news-partition normally.

Is such a setup possible at all? Are there better setup-schemes? Do you
know of a file system type the two OSs have in common?
I would be glad to hear/read about any experiences (good/bad) you made
with the setup described above (or with a similar one)...

Kind regards,

-- 
Muharem Hrnjadovic
(hrnjad@spock.m.isar.de)