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From: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 + Linux + FreeBSD on same machine?
Date: 24 Feb 95 23:20:50 GMT
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ao826@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (David A Hosten) writes:


>I am just about to put either FreeBSD or Linux on my DX66, and have
>it share space with OS/2 and a small DOS partition.

>I'm particularly interested in comments from anyone who has OS/2 and
>FreeBSD installed; as I have been lucky enough to have read a number of
>comments on Linux/OS2 compatibility and coexistence.

I have both OS/2 and FreeBSD on my system. I use fdisk in both OS/2 and
FreeBSD to manage the boot partition. This is a carry over from the old
386BSD days when 386BSD didn't get along with OS/2 2.0 BootManger , I 
don't know whether FreeBSD 2.x will live with the current OS/2 BootManager.

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Kaleb KEITHLEY