From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 16:24:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B8A37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:24:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E259643FB1 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:24:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1045441491.beb339@mired.org) Received: (qmail 47368 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2003 00:24:51 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 12 Feb 2003 00:24:51 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15945.37971.202353.517408@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:24:51 -0600 To: miloman68@earthlink.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running freeBSD with "other" OS's In-Reply-To: <41200323120155265@earthlink.net> References: <41200323120155265@earthlink.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.69 (Count Fleet) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <41200323120155265@earthlink.net>, miloman68 typed: > Just wanted to ask if it is possible (advisable) to configure my Windows XP > machine with three separate primary partitions and run XP on one, FreeBSD > on another, and RedHat Linux on the third. I want to start "teaching" > myself other OS's besides Windows, but need to keep XP on my home system > for my families use. Thanks in advance for your assistance. I've got a box doing almost exactly that. I'm using Gentoo Linux, and have two FreeBSD partitions - one for -STABLE and one for -CURRENT. I use grub, from the FreeBSD ports tree, to boot whichever I need at the time. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message