From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 21 18:47:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pravda.tenzo.net (24.69.46.73.bc.wave.home.com [24.69.46.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5946E37B71A for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:47:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Received: from pravda.tenzo.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pravda.tenzo.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D9DA60044 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:48:09 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael O'Henly Reply-To: michael@tenzo.com Organization: TENZO Design To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing FreeBSD to co-exist on a Linux machine Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:48:09 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032118480901.29161@pravda.tenzo.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi... I have a Linux desktop system with two hard drives. At the moment only the first drive is being used (for Linux) and I want to install FreeBSD on the second drive. I've check space and hardware in the FAQ and all appears well. The Linux system uses GRUB as a boot loader. Here's what I think will happen... 1. I'll boot from my FreeBSD 4.2 install CD and direct it to install to the second hard drive. 2. At some point, I'll be asked whether to install a boot loader. 3. I'll say yes and the FreeBSD boot loader, Boot Easy, will overwrite GRUB (the Linux boot loader). 4. After rebooting, I'll modify the Boot Easy in some way so that it will also be able to boot Linux. Does that sound about right? If so, two questions: 1. I'm a true FreeBSD neophyte and don't know how to modify Boot Easy so that it will boot Linux. Is there any documentation on this? (Although I guess I could boot Linux from a floppy until I get my feet on the ground...) 2. Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of that might put my Linux partitions at risk when I'm doing the install? Thanks. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message