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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16788 comp.os.linux.help:80987 comp.os.os2.misc:127354 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.near.net!public.x.org!kaleb 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 Organization: X Consortium Lines: 19 Message-ID: <kaleb.793668050@exalt> References: <D4IuAH.6FI@freenet.carleton.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: exalt.x.org X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #5 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. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY