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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
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rknebel@postoffice.ptd.net (Rick Knebel) wrote:

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>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
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