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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user
Date: 6 Jun 1995 11:15:49 +0200
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Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>>2. Do Your FreeBSD installation onto that partition. FreeBSD will find it
>> by the typebyte and (hopefully - but You did make a backup, anyway) stay
>> inside it.
>
>Thanks very much for your help.
>I did in fact do much as you suggest --
>but at this stage one of the comments in the FreeBSD setup program
>led me to suspect that if I continued
>my Linux partitions might be affected.
>
>With your encouragement, I'll take the plunge
>and go past that point.
As long as you don't touch the partition table, there's no real danger
to come. If the installation program doesn't find a FreeBSD slice, it
will refuse to proceed at some point (since it doesn't know where to
put the bits to).
So all you have to do very carefully is managing the partition table.
Make sure you don't alter any data you don't want to touch.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)