From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 26 00:46:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A803106564A for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 00:46:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 909E78FC13 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 00:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p5DCBD79C.dip.t-dialin.net [93.203.215.156]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p4Q0jw6f000489; Thu, 26 May 2011 00:45:59 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4Q0jm5u007388; Thu, 26 May 2011 02:45:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p4Q0jcEK077241; Thu, 26 May 2011 02:45:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201105260045.p4Q0jcEK077241@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Jerry McAllister From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Wed, 25 May 2011 15:33:06 EDT." <20110525193306.GA29963@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 02:45:38 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CRUX and FREE BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 00:46:02 -0000 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 Search, or Browse for "Dual Boot" etc, in questions@freebsd.org archive. , eg a 2007 Sample. 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.