From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 30 8:36:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tartarus.telenet-ops.be (tartarus.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F9E337B403 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fredericv@pandora.be) Received: from freebsd2.matrixlab.be (D5E0677C.kabel.telenet.be [213.224.103.124]) by tartarus.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2004F216FB9 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:36:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from frederic by freebsd2.matrixlab.be with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15RF6A-00008D-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:36:50 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:36:50 +0200 From: Frederic Vanneste To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux on a FBSD system... Message-ID: <20010730173650.A490@freebsd2.matrixlab.be> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010730170301.A453@freebsd2.matrixlab.be> <20010730171907.L86349-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20010730171907.L86349-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:22:49PM +0200, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > 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. > Thanks... Any suggestions on a filesystem to share data between Linux and FBSD? I mean one that is rock solid for both sides... Frederic > Regards > Konrad > > Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: > Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche > Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen http://www.freebsd.org > Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen http://www.daemonnews.org > Deutschland (Germany) > > kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de > > -- "The charm of knowledge would be small, were it not that so much shame has to be overcome on the way to it." 'Friedrich Nietszche' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message