Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:10:22 +0530 From: Rahul Sawarkar <torahuls@vsnl.com> To: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD dualboot Message-ID: <3FB8A596.5020306@vsnl.com>
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Jerry, I always use fdisk program of a linux distribution - if you don't want it installed, cancel the setup half-way after the fdisk part is over... Better still use a distribution that boots from cdrom like knoppix and doesn't require to be installed on a harddisk. A linux distro should be easily & freely available with a local linux magzine.... I have a triple-boot system with Linux, FreeBSD and NT5. Here is brief note on my experience - 1. One can normally only create 3 primary partitions and one extended, or 4 primary... etc., .My hdd already had NT & linux on 2 partitions with with a 3rd 1GB spare primary partition. (I always keep spare 1gb primary partitions (and within the 1st 1024 cylinders as a precaution), it helps like in this case when I decied I wanted fbsd too...) 2 FBSD would not have fitted on the 1gb part with X and KDE, so I decided to use an extended-logical partition. However nowhere in my FBSD 4.7 setup process, did I see any facility to work with extended partitions. Heres what I did - 2.a Boot linux, use fdisk to make the desired logical partition of type "bsd" 2.b Setup Freebsd with a minimal config that will fit into 1 gb. 2.c Boot FBSD 2.d "newfs" the logical partition ( I do not remember all the commands I gave sorry... I think more commands are needed, but simply lookup the standard set of commands needed for creating a new filesystem, as found in FBSD handbook ) 2.e "cp -pPrR" the existing /usr folder to the logical partition after mounting it to say /mnt 2.f Edit the /etc/fstab to add the new filesystem/logical partition to mount at mount point "/usr" automatically at boot 2.g Reboot FBSD to see that all is OK. The new /usr on a logical partition with all the required files should now be mounted over the old /usr 3. Now run /stand/sysinstall and add X-windows all the other bulky software you need. 3. I use lilo to boot FBSD or Win2k or linux. So I made the appropriate entries in lilo.conf If you need specific help with commands drop me another mail, and I will try and use my (rather weak) powers of recollection.. :) Rgrds Rahul Sawarkar
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