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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!mr.net!news.mr.net!usenet From: srose@mr.net (Steve Rose) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Using OS/2 boot manager Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 20:43:01 GMT Organization: mr.net Lines: 52 Message-ID: <3vm05t$pqi@news.mr.net> References: <3v2k2i$19oh@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> <3v6lqg$3q7@cedar.mr.net> <3vkd48$3oj@dragon.solect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: msp1-16.nas.mr.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 mlavalle@ViaNet.on.ca (Michael Lavallee) wrote: >srose@mr.net (Steve Rose) wrote: >>Yes, works fine. I have FreeBSD, OS/2 Warp, and NT living happily on 2 >>disks. If you have room, I found that having all 3 OS's on one disk >>with all the data on a 2nd disk works very well. Depending on how you >>set it up, you may have to go back and mark the BM partition as active >>(DOS Fdisk or OS/2 install from a floppy will work for this.) You will >>also have to install FreeBSD into the OS/2 boot manager menu. >Hello Steve. I am currently running OS/2 Warp on my system, and am >looking at setting things up so that I have FreeBSD and possibly even >Windows NT on my system as well. You meantioned that you had all the >data on a second disk, and I'm curious about that. What format is >your data drive in? FAT, HPFS, or something else? A setup similar to >the one you have described is what I am looking for, but I'm getting >as much information as I can first. :-) Michael, I have two 1gb disks on the system. Here's how I set things up. disk 0 4 primary partitions ---------------------------------------------------------- 1mb Boot Manager primary partition 333mb FreeBSD primary partition - UFS 333mb OS/2 primary partition - HPFS 333mb NT 3.51 primary partition - NTFS disk 1 1 extended DOS partition, ------------------------------------------------------------ 4 250mb logical drives - FAT In this configuration, the drive mappings for OS/2 and NT remain constant.( Drive E stays as drive E, regardless of OS, etc) Before I installed FreeBSD, I had Windows for Workgroups and DOS on the partition, so this was important. Anyway, FAT being the lowest common denominator and being readable by everything else made life a little easier. Also, installing application software for WIN and OS/2 on drive D and E allows me to have only 1 copy that both OS's can use. I need all three systems as I do consulting and have customers with all of the above. If you need additional details, e-mail me and I can fill you in.