Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:21:23 -0400
From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: AG <computing.account@googlemail.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD7.2 + Debian testing ("Squeeze") dual boot
Message-ID: <20090716202122.GA80772@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:35:27PM +0100, AG wrote: > Hello all > > I've been tempted for quite some years now to try FreeBSD, so I am > wanting to dual-boot the most up-to-date version (which I *think* is > 7.2?) with Debian (cn: Squeeze) on an AMD Sempron Dual Core 2300 sata > machine, with a Debian configuration on /home. > > This is a project that I am going to be playing with over the next few > months, so know that I have lots of reading to do, and the calibre of > FreeBSD docs looks impressive. Kudos. At this point, I'm just wanting > to do a bit of straw poll about these systems playing together, > especially around the UID on /home/* and whether that poses a problem > accessing the same files from different OSs? Just interested in general > thoughts and opinions, if people are cool with that. I am not quite sure what you mean here. But, you would create a completely different slice to install the FreeBSD and it would have a completely different set of device names. How you mount then - as /home, /usr, /, /var, /tmp for example doesn't matter. If you mounted a partition from the Debian slice as /home, it would be just that, the Debian device mounted as /home in FreeBSD. I would not recommend you trying to use that as the place to put users' base login directories (home directories) on FreeBSD, though it might be possible. Instead, create a /home in the FreeBSD slice - it could just be a directory under one large / (root) or be its own partition and use it for FreeBSD login dirs. Then figure out how to mount the Debian partition on its own mount point - something like /dhome and access it separately. How well you can mount and access that device will depend on what type of device it was created as when Debian was built. ////jerry > > Thanks > > Anton > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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