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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:22:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To: Frederic Vanneste <TheMatriX@matrixlab.be>
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Subject: Re: Linux on a FBSD system...
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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

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