Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:27:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Roland Jay Roberts <jay@map.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HPFS and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960112102605.1147C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0taeJH-003uWCC@wormhole>
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On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Roland Jay Roberts wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jan 96 22:16:04 EST you wrote: > > >I use OS/2 on HPFS and I would like to boot to the Bootmanager and then select the operating system I want to start: DOS(urgh), OS/2 or FreeBSD. > > > >Is that possible ? or is there any other way to keep both OS/2 and FreeBSD on the same drive ? > > Yes, it's possible. According to Linux installation instructions, you > first have to create the partition under OS/2, format it (FAT is > fine), and add it to Bootmanager's menu. Then, when installing > FreeBSD, delete that partition and replace it with fbsd's. There is no need to create the parition on fdisk first. bootmanager will pick up FreeBSd's partition just fine. At least it did on my machine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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