Date: 23 Aug 2000 22:37:55 -0300 From: Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br> To: Safir Secerovic <esafir@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi OS installation Message-ID: <86u2cbxwuk.fsf@mpcnet.com.br> In-Reply-To: Safir Secerovic's message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:57:24 -0700 (PDT)" References: <20000823235724.4738.qmail@web3105.mail.yahoo.com>
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:: On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:57:24 -0700 (PDT), Safir Secerovic <esafir@yahoo.com> said: Hello! That's exactly what I'm doing! (Actually, I run FreeBSD 4.1 and Debian woody) I had Debian installed first, then just installed FreeBSD to a primary partition, and set my boot manager to let me choose the OS. You may want to check the Linux-and-FreeBSD howto (it's a mini-HOWTO) in the Linux Documentation Project: http://www.linuxdoc.org/ A few interesting tips: - FreeBSD will not install in a logical partition. - Decide which boot manager you'll use. I use the GNU Grub (which is great) -- so, after I had grub installed under Linux, I installed FreeBSD, and did *NOT* let it install its boot manager (you'll be asked this)... Then I jsut added, in my grub conf. file in Linux, an entry for FreeBSD. - Both FreeBSD and Linux can see each other's filesystems, but: + FreeBSD cannot see inside a logical partition used by Linux; + You'll probably (someone correct me if I'm wrong!) have to recompile the kernels of both OSes to make them see each other's partitions; + If you can choose, put your BSD in a primary partition after any extended partitions, because Linux may get confused if you boot from a floppy with a kernel which doesn't support BSD partition labels and filesystems (this is only in the case that you decide to put partitions of both typoes in the same HD); + Be careful when mounting partitions like that in read/write mode... Make backups of important things! I guess that's it... Just install both systems in different partitions (perhaps different disks). Keep track of which partition/kernel image you have to choose for each OS, and then boot the box and change your boot manger's settings. If you install the grub, you'll find all these details in the info files. As far as I know, both LILO and the FreeBSD boot manager (forgot its name) can do this as well. Hope this helps... J. > Hello there, > regards from Bosnia and Herzegovina!!! > I want to install FreeBSD 4.1 and Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 > on my PC {i386}. > I have two HDD, one is IBM DPTA 302070 20 GB as > primary master and the other is FUJITSU MPD*** 4.3 GB. > I wonder how should I install the OSes to be able to > boot both of them. > Thanks in advance, Safir Secerovic - Visoko , Bosnia -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:jeronimo@ic.unicamp.br mailto:pellegrini@iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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