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21 Jan 2014 08:58:04 +0000 UTC From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20140121060405.396586d4.freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux shared installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:01:21 -0000 from Polytropon: > For educational and experimental purposes, I'd like to install > FreeBSD along with two Linusi on a laptop. It has a 100 GB SATA > disk which should be sufficient. So I'm searching for important > advice and mentioning of pitfalls that I should avoid. I'm > planning to use FreeBSD 10.0, Kali Linux and Mageia. Here are > some problems or considerations I expect to be facing: > Partitioning: Does Linux support GPT, or should I better keep > using MBR? FreeBSD would get one slice, "DOS primary partition", > a common data exchange partition another one, and the Linusi > could do their stuff on "logical drives inside a DOS extended > partition", as it seems to be common over there. I am not sure how to configure a boot manager, though you can use GRUB2. I can definitively say Linux supports GPT and OpenBSD does not. System Rescue CD/USB recognizes GPT disks but can not mount or read UFS2, either on MBR or GPT. If /dev/sda is partitioned with GPT, partitions would be /dev/sda1, sda2, sda3 and so on. NetBSD supports GPT though not as elegantly as Linux or FreeBSD. Tom