From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 16 20:22:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F11A1065670 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:22:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFD48FC27 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:22:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n6GKLNI4080801; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:21:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id n6GKLNui080800; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:21:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:21:23 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: AG Message-ID: <20090716202122.GA80772@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <4A5F80FF.7000704@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A5F80FF.7000704@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD7.2 + Debian testing ("Squeeze") dual boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:22:40 -0000 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"