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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 01:57:44 EST
From: jay@map.com (Roland Jay Roberts)
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On Tue, 09 Jan 96 22:16:04 EST you wrote:

>I use OS/2 on HPFS and I would like to boot to the Bootmanager and then select the operating system I want to start: DOS(urgh), OS/2 or FreeBSD.
>
>Is that possible ? or is there any other way to keep both OS/2 and FreeBSD on the same drive ?

Yes, it's possible.  According to Linux installation instructions, you
first have to create the partition under OS/2, format it (FAT is
fine), and add it to Bootmanager's menu.  Then, when installing
FreeBSD, delete that partition and replace it with fbsd's.  

Your best bet would be to create a 30 Meg partition for the BSD root
filesystem and tag that as your freeBSD partition for OS/2's
bootmanager.

On my system, I've got DOS and OS/2 on the first HDD, and FreeBSD on
the second, with the OS/2 Boot Manager booting all three.  I created a
20M root partition on the second drive (a primary partition) and added
it to Bootmanager's menu.  I then ran the FreeBSD install and had it
create another partition using the rest of the disk for the /usr
filesystem.  I then deleted the primary partition I'd created under
OS/2 and had FreeBSD create a 20M partition in its place.


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