Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 01:57:28 -0500 From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@rochester.rr.com> To: "Christopher S. Weimann" <cweimann@wallnet.com> Cc: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>, "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu>, wonko@entropy.tmok.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is FreeBSD better than Linux? Message-ID: <199912130657.BAA01971@rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "Christopher S. Weimann" <cweimann@wallnet.com> of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 01:12:09 EST." <19991212011209.B2680@wallnet.com>
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No, while the slice approach creates 8 potential file system
in one slice, I found it easier to just use extended partitions.
That way I can have redhat 5.2 and redhat 6.0 on the same disk
I.e. redhat 5.2 / = /dev/hda5
redhat 5.2 /usr = /dev/hda6
swap /dev/hda7
redhat 6.0 / = dev/hda8
redhat 6.0 /usr = /dev/hda9
There's something called "extended linux partitions", I've never
used them.
When I put 1 system several years in slice 1, and another system
in slice 2, it installed but always booted the first slice.
Also loadlin seemed "better" than the freebsd dos-based kernel loader...
(supposedly I may be able to do this now in freebsd...I'll belive
it when I see it).
> On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:36:42PM -0500, Marty Leisner wrote:
> >
> > I've found linux to boot more flexibly because you can:
> > have multiple distributions on one disk
> >
>
> Do you mean on the same filesystem?
>
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