Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 02:45:38 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CRUX and FREE BSD Message-ID: <201105260045.p4Q0jcEK077241@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 25 May 2011 15:33:06 EDT." <20110525193306.GA29963@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:45:38PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Hi Ramu cc questions@ > > > > > > I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do > > > > that?? I have CRUX installed before. > > > > I wrote some notes here: > > http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html > > Hope it may help you & or similar enquirers. > > > > I dont see anything about this in the handbook, > > (that is, shrinking the other OS before installing BSD) > > although the topic doesnt strictly belong to FreeBSD, > > it would help converts if we had something added I think. > > Corrections/ Additions etc welcome. > > The reason for shrinking it is to make room for the additional OS (FreeBSD). I assumed the original poster had allocated all space to the other Crux OS. In case that might not be true for someone, some time, I added a para. near top of page: If Fdisk shows you have enough unused space on your boot disk to install a BSD partition, do it, no need to read more of this page. If you don't have enough space, read on. > If you plan to use an additional disk or if you left room untouched on > the existing disk, you can use that and not do any shrinking. I never > played with CRUX and so I don't know how standard it is when handling > disk and/or booting, but have posted many a long tome on how to do all > of this. You might try looking in the archives - probably at least > a couple of years ago was the last one. Look for phrases like > dual boot. > > ////jerry I added One can <a href=http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists>Search</A>, or <a href=http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/>; Browse </A> for "Dual Boot" etc, in questions@freebsd.org archive. , eg a <a href=http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-February/142300.html>2007 Sample</A>. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context.
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