From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 06:19:49 2005 Return-Path: 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 4FF2C16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:19:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.8.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0376B43D41 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:19:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.13.1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j2N6JiAb039340; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:19:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.13.1/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id j2N6JiOD039336; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:19:44 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:19:44 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Bob Perry In-Reply-To: <20050323061303.GA1259@sphinx.alpha.domain> Message-ID: <20050323071437.C99436@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <20050323061303.GA1259@sphinx.alpha.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Order for Win XP Pro, SuSE 9.2, & FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:19:49 -0000 On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Bob Perry wrote: > I intend to re-install multiple operating systems onto a box > which already has Win XP Pro and SuSE 9.2. After some thought, > I've decided to add FreeBSD 5.3 and, in addition, change the > Win XP Pro filesytem from NTFS to FAT32 to facilitate file- > sharing. If I understand what I've been reading, I should be > able to modify both the Linux and FreeBSD kernels to read and/or > write ext2fs and UFS1 data as well. > > I'm prepared to clear the harddrive and start from scratch and I > question whether or not there is a prescribed order for > installation. I understand that Windows has a habit of > overwriting data in the MBR and installing its' own loader so > the recommendation is to load it first. Whether, Linux or FreeBSD > is next I'm not sure and would welcome your input. > > I realize that there are third-party bootloaders available, but > I have a feeling that I can learn more about these systems if I > work with what they offer. > > I have a 120GB Western Digital HD, an ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard, > and a Pentium 2.8GHz CPU. > > This is not currently my primary box, but who knows what may happen > in the near future. > > Thanks in advance. This is a huge undertaking for me at this time. > > Bob Perry I'd prefer the order XP, FreeBSD, Linux. This is because both XP and FreeBSD can easily get a primary partition this way, and because - to my mind - lilo is a good boot manager to start all three os. Thus, install Linux at last, and install lilo into the MBR. I don't know grub but I guess, lilo can still be used with SuSE. Regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2@gwdg.de