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To: David Vitkus <dvitkus@galaxy.net>
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Subject: Re: Boot manager 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:18:33 EST."
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From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@ptavv.es.net>
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> From: David Vitkus <dvitkus@galaxy.net>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:18:33 -0500
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> with BSD 4.4, how do I get the boot manager to recognise when i've installed 
> another OS. I have two BSD OS's installed and want to install Linux in a 
> third partition.

Assuming that you mean the standard FreeBSD boot tool, you just
install Linux but don't let the installation install LILO. The boot
tool recognizes DOS/Windows (FAT), Unix, Linux, BSD/OS, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, and OpenBSD partition types at this time.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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