Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:00:52 -0700
From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD7.2 + Debian testing ("Squeeze") dual boot
Message-ID: <87tz1ci66z.fsf@cjlinux.localnet>
In-Reply-To: <4A5F80FF.7000704@gmail.com> (AG's message of "Thu\, 16 Jul 2009 20\:35\:27 %2B0100")
References: <4A5F80FF.7000704@gmail.com>
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AG <computing.account@googlemail.com> writes: > 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. There are other options for experimenting with. I am currently running Debian Lenny with FreeBSD 7.1 running in VirtualBox. That works well for ssh, and the virtual display will run X11 pretty well. The display for X is not accelerated, but that works well enough unless you want to run games or 3D. I probably have a slower system than you do (Athlon 64 3000), so the speed should be fine for you. The memory requirements seems less than for Debian, so I am running KDE for FreeBSD in a VirtualBox machine with 350MB and it works well. The UIDs are not the same (500? for FreeBSD and 1000 for Debian), but I just did a find/chown to change the UID for my login to allow ssh/scp to work properly. The next release (8.0) is supposed to support Xen, so I am planning to try that when it comes out (Aug-Sept?). -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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