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Date:      Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:40:12 +0200
From:      Omar Gani <daemons@inwind.it>
To:        bobread@ids.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Win98+Linux+FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.0.20010412232022.00a4aec8@popmail.inwind.it>
In-Reply-To: <3AD5FF42.ABB4D8E1@ids.net>

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At 15.17 12/04/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Looking for some advice.
>
>I have been (and am) running Win98 alone on a 13 GB drive. I swap it
>with a 10 GB drive on which I run Corel Linux alone. I want to install
>FreeBSD now, but would like to have all three on one drive.  I have
>a 30 GB drive, PowerQuest"s PartitionMagic and DriveCopy.  I also have
>much confusion in my tired old mind after reading all the manuals and
>trying to put all of the information together.  What I think is most
>puzzling is the sequence in which steps should be performed to get
>all three systems running on one drive -- and which of the available
>tools to use when.
>
>Can anyone offer advice?
>
>Much Thanks,
>
>Bob
>
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Keep in mind that you can't make more than 4 partitions in a
hard disk. So unless you put linux partitions on logical
DOS/win9X partition, you have to exactly 4 partition (DOS/win9X,
FreeBSD, Linux & Linux's SWAP).

And then I think it's better to use FreeBSD's booteasy or os-bs
than LILO as boot manager. I've had sudden annoying problems
with LILO. I wonder how those linux folks can live with LILO?

btw, I think there is a LINUX+FreeBSD MINI HOW-TO somewhere,
if I'm not mistaken, it says how to share swap between FreeBSD
and Linux.

Good luck,

omarg




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