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Date:      Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:54:37 +0200
From:      Umut Tabak <u.tabak@tudelft.nl>
To:        me <gurpreet007@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd along with debian
Message-ID:  <4C5BE9ED.8000700@tudelft.nl>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimL7nO74xsVdQ-XiO7YQyXjZ1RX7qGgUW7dV%2BDo@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4C5BB236.7040206@gmail.com> <AANLkTimL7nO74xsVdQ-XiO7YQyXjZ1RX7qGgUW7dV%2BDo@mail.gmail.com>

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On 08/06/2010 12:48 PM, me wrote:
> and you have a free primary partition lying around then you can 
> install FreeBSD normally using the free primary partition as your BSD 
> slice and making BSD partitions over it.
> When FreeBSD ask you about Bootloader chose to leave the MBR untouched.
> Once FreeBSD is installed you can boot into Debian and add FreeBSD 
> entry in grub's config file.
> Next time you reboot you should get option to boot in Debian or 
> FreeBSD right from GRUB.
>
Yep, I have Debian installed already, and on my new AMD powered desktop, 
I have an unformatted partition which I left for FreeBsd, so it seems 
straight forward(I was guessing this but wanted to consult again to be 
sure.), I should read a bit more and then give that a try.
Thx




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