From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 15 20:13:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03500 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:13:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03490; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA07446; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:13:36 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980716131332.63574@welearn.com.au> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:13:32 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Joseph Koshy Cc: andrsn@andrsn.Stanford.edu, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux-FreeBSD Q&A References: <199807160142.SAA22565@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199807160142.SAA22565@hub.freebsd.org>; from Joseph Koshy on Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 06:42:13PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 06:42:13PM -0700, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > > (http://freebsd.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/linux.html) > > Some answers to your questions with parenthetical comments needing further > discussion by the list in curly braces "{}". > > > Q: Can I install FreeBSD on the same hard drive as Linux? > A: Yes. You can install FreeBSD in another primary partition on the hard > disk. > > { You can even arrange for FreeBSD to use Linux's swap partition, > (there was a discussion on this point on -hackers sometime > back), but this may be a bit advanced for a introductory howto. } There is a good FreeBSD and Linux HOW-TO already, and it goes into some detail on sharing swap. Note that this is part of the Linux Documentation Project. I think we should avoid using the term HOW-TO for FreeBSD documentation to avoid confusion. Not only confusion with the location of documents, but also confusion of the methods and objectives of small documents for the two documentation projects, in case they differ. There is no reason why we might not refer people to the LDP as appropriate, and vice versa, using the two naming schemes in the one breath in the future. If we are going to assemble short documents and want to give them a name, I suggest we think up a better one, real quick. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message