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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!leon.replicant.apana.org.au!usenet From: tedp@replicant.apana.org.au (Ted Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: install question Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 19:59:03 GMT Organization: RC17 Proving Labs Lines: 42 Message-ID: <33c3e81d.14225410@replicant.apana.org.au> References: <slrn5s4g4d.9q.rknebel@noname.nodomain.nowhere> Reply-To: tedp@replicant.apana.org.au NNTP-Posting-Host: leon.replicant.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/16.230 Cache-Post-Path: leon.replicant.apana.org.au!unknown@replicant.apana.org.au Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44165 rknebel@postoffice.ptd.net (Rick Knebel) wrote: [...] >1. Do you make both a root and swap pation with bsd? With linux I > make the partions ahead of time with my OS2 fdisk and just label them with >the linux fdisk. Can I do this with the free BSd install? Yes, there are quite a few variations you can do. My own system runs FreeBSD from an IDE disk primary partition with the swap space on a separate (small) SCSI disk. Bear in mind that a BSD "partition" is not equal to a DOS "partition". The difference in terminology can confuse some. A DOS fdisk partition you may make for FreeBSD would be a BSD "slice". Within that "slice" you make BSD partitions which DOS fdisk doesn't see, only BSD does. Within these BSD partitions you create the various BSD filesystems. I did a few installs before I got the BSD partition sizes to my satisfaction. All good practice. >2. I usually put lilo the linux boot manager on the root partion and > add that partion to the OS2 boot manager and boot linux from it. > Can I do this also with BSD? Yes. I had about 170Meg on the first IDE disk that I have used for other operating systems, such as Coherent and Linux. When I had Linux installed, I had it set up in the IBM Boot Mangler as well (I also run OS/2). Once I installed FreeBSD into the same (DOS fdisk) partition, I could boot FreeBSD through IBM Boot Mangler. Maybe if I turf OS/2, I'll go back to Coherent Master Boot. OSBS or Booteasy could probably do the same multiboot job, but I haven't tried these yet. Mister_T "It's impossible to walk away after a ride on the new CBX750 without thinking that this bike is a bloody ripper." Two Wheels April 1984 -- \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\ | RC17 KLR600 Coherent 4.2.10 OS/2 2.11 Roces BCN | | FreeBSD 2.1.5-R tedp@replicant.apana.org.au | \|_________________________________________________________________|