Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:22:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Frederic Vanneste <TheMatriX@matrixlab.be> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linux on a FBSD system... Message-ID: <20010730171907.L86349-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <20010730170301.A453@freebsd2.matrixlab.be>
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Frederic Vanneste wrote: > I have a FBSD box with the standard bootmanager installed > in the mbr. Now I have to get debian back on the box but > I don't want to lose FBSD so I'll make a multiboot. > I looked on the net for some info, but they all say I > should install linux first and then FBSD... Wy??? Will > there be partition problems??? > And what to do with the bootmanager? Can I add linux or > will I be better off with lilo in this case? My experience is: life is easy with FreeBSD being first OS and Linux installed later. Install lilo into the Linux root partition and *not* into MBR, and write the FreeBSD boot manager to the MBR with /stand/sysinstall. Regards Konrad Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen http://www.freebsd.org Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen http://www.daemonnews.o= rg Deutschland (Germany) kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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