Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:48:20 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install questions Message-ID: <20020918014820.GA10234%scottro@despammed.com> In-Reply-To: <20020918003825.20C4D3954@sitemail.everyone.net> References: <20020918003825.20C4D3954@sitemail.everyone.net>
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--mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:38:25PM -0700, Mike Shlitz wrote: > I have an older machine, Pentium 233 MMX, 256MB SDRAM, 512 cache, (2) Wes= tern Digital 8.4 GB HDD, 24X CDROM, 2X CDRW. >=20 > My intention is to run a tri-boot machine letting Slackware 8.1 and FreeB= SD 4.6.2 split the second drive. =20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > 1. Should I change the harddrives so that C:\ is primary master and D:\ i= s secondary master? >=20 >=20 > 3. Should I install Slackware or FreeBSD first? Does it matter? It doesn't necessarily matter, but keep in mind that FreeBSD needs a primary partition. Slack can go in a logical drive in an extended partition. Lilo or Grub can boot MS, FreeBSD and the Linux install. Grub is available in the FreeBSD ports. I don't remember if Slack uses Grub or Lilo (these days my Linux distro is Gentoo). Or, you can install Grub in FreeBSD from ports. I think it'll depend upon which one you'll be more likely to be playing with most, as that's the one you'll be most likely to reinstall, and therefore, might want to put the bootloader on the other installation. Both Linux and FreeBSD can boot from a secondary master, so that part doesn't matter. (And, they can boot the other O/S's from it.) HTH=20 --=20 Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Harmony: How are you gonna kill her? Think! The second you even=20 point that thing at her, you're gonna be all 'Aaagh!' (holding=20 her hand to her head in imitation of Spike), and then you'll get=20 bitch-slapped up and down Main Street, unless she's finally had=20 enough and just stakes you!=20 Spike: Sure, it'll hurt like hell for about two hours. But she'll be dead just a little longer than that.=20 --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9h9tk+lTVdes0Z9YRAoNpAJwJNZsmZdfEuvqscUq3CmYZSJgIhQCdF06j 003wq6Dr7C/KZhnqjbnscuI= =Z2VO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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