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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:24:54 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu>
To:        "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions-en <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: debian/freebsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206101423420.11779-100000@cs.selu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC038947B3@exchange.Navitaire.com>

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what do you mean by corrupting?  lilo doesn't come up?  if you telling 
debian to install lilo in the MBR, then that is your problem.  it needs to 
go in the root partition of your linux installation.

jason

> messmate,
> i have 3 primary and one extended partitions. I have linux in my extended.
> The real problem is debian. I can install redhat just fine with bsd on the
> system. I can't install debian without corrupting my bsd partition.
> brian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: messmate [mailto:messmate@free.fr]
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 1:34 PM
> To: Henning, Brian
> Cc: freebsd-questions-en
> Subject: Re: debian/freebsd
> 
> 
> Hello,
> YES you can.
> I have win, linux and FreeBSD installed on the same disk.
> My bootmanager is LILO without any pb.
> Remarks: you can have anly 4 primary partitions or 3 primary and 1 extended
> on the same HD.
> A+
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:10:26 -0500
> "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com> wrote:
> 
> | Hello-
> | I have one hard drive that I want to have freeBSD and debian Linux exist
> on.
> | I want freebsd in a primary partition and I want linux and linux swap in
> the
> | logical partitions in the extended partition. Every time I try to install
> | debian, it corrupts my freebsd partition. After that is corrupt I
> reinstall
> | freebsd and I it corrupts my debian partition. Does anyone have a duel
> boot
> | system with these two operating systems on the same disk? is it not
> possible
> | to have debian and freebsd on the same disk?
> | thanks-
> | brian
> | 
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