Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 03:50:28 +0800 From: "Rino Mardo" <rmardo@yahoo.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Win2K-FreeBSD-Linux on the same machine Message-ID: <00e701c12756$60145320$57a145ca@rino> References: <20010817180351.46091.qmail@web20201.mail.yahoo.com>
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first thing off is you install the jealous OS (M$) first, then either follow it with FreeBSD or Linux. in my case i installed Linux on my second primary partition and the swap on the third primary partition. big mistake. now i boot the FreeBSD boot manager (booteasy) shows me F1 Windows F2 Linux F3 Unknown F4 FreeBSD which is ugly. i suggest you install the Linux swap in an extended partition right under there you have your Linux installed. last thing is don't use booteasy. use either LILO or some boot manager where it doesn't require you to know C nor Forth. my 2cents. Rino ----- Original Message ----- From: Pablo Monti <phm_fbsd@yahoo.com.ar> To: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 2:03 AM Subject: Win2K-FreeBSD-Linux on the same machine > Hi ! > > I want to configure a multiOS test box, with Windows > 2000 Professional, FreeBSD and Linux on it, enabling > choice of OS at boot time. > > The machine in cuestion is a PII, 300 Mhz, 128 Mb RAM, > 1st HD 13 Gb, 2nd HD 4 Gb. > > Currently, I've managed to support this situation with > removable cases for the HDs, having Win2K+Linux on the > 1st HD and FreeBSD on the 2nd HD. > > But I want to choose OS at boot time, without the need > to power off the machine and swap the drives, I'm very > lazy :-) > > My plan is to put the 13 Gb HD as master, and the 4 Gb > HD as slave. The ideal scenario could be put the 2 HDs > y through some trick configure a bootloader for > booting the 3 OSs without any reformatting nor OS > reinstalling. > > Anyway, I don't have any problem on make backups of 3 > OS, and making a install from scratch to put at work > as i want. > > I've searched the net and founded some HOWTOs, but > they seems to be insufficient or outdated > > If somebody in the list have made something similar, > please, share with me your experiences or point me in > the rigth direction. > > Apologies for my poor English > > Thanks in advance > > Pablo > > _________________________________________________________ > żLo probaste? > Correo gratis y para toda la vida en http://correo.yahoo.com.ar > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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