From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 20 08:09:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA05170 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 08:09:46 -0700 Received: from everest (dtr.rain.com [204.119.8.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA05165 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 08:09:42 -0700 From: bmk@dtr.com Received: (from bmk@localhost) by everest (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA01108; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 07:57:54 -0700 Message-Id: <199509201457.HAA01108@everest> Subject: Re: Multiple OS...setup and booting help??? To: PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu (Christian) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 07:57:54 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Christian" at Sep 19, 95 05:23:37 pm Reply-To: bmk@dtr.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 663 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi > I have a 486 DX2/66 that currently contains Win95 on a 90Mb > partition on a 516Mb IDE HDisk. I would like to install Linux on > about 100Mb partition and FreeBSD on the rest. My question is..which > OS should I install first? I would like to use the FreeBSD boot > manager but I am not sure if it will work with three OSs. If anyone > has any other tips dealing with this type of setup they would be > greatly appreciated. Booteasy should have no problems with three bootable partitions. I would install Win95, then Linux, and FreeBSD last if you want to use Booteasy. You could probably install Linux last _if_ you don't install LILO.