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From: orc@pell.com (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine?
Date: 26 Nov 1995 16:02:18 -0800
Organization: This Space For Rent
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In article <m2zqdjdegw.fsf@lily.sirius.com>,
Peter Seibel <seibel@sirius.com> wrote:
>I have Linux up and running as the only OS on my machine. And I have a
>1.2 gig hard drive which is divided into one big partition (1.1 gig)
>plus a small swap partition (the rest). How would I go about
>installing FreeBSD so I can try it out without getting rid of Linux.
Well, I can't say anything about any release more recent than
2.0.5, but you _can_ install that release on a machine that's
already got linux -- I've a development machine that I set up
for both Linux and FreeBSD, installing Linux first, but leaving
room for 350mb of FreeBSD on the disk, then installing FreeBSD
into that space. The only thing special I did was to not install
the FreeBSD boot manager, but leave it up to Lilo to point at
the FreeBSD loader.
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david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.chi.il.us
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