From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 28 14:18:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37BE537B5D9 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 14:18:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA91162; Sun, 28 May 2000 17:18:31 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200005281634.KAA77382@harmony.village.org> References: <200005281634.KAA77382@harmony.village.org> Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 17:18:35 -0400 To: Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Dual-booting: FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:34 AM -0600 5/28/00, Warner Losh wrote: >I need to setup a machine that will boot FreeBSD, NetBSD and >OpenBSD. Assume I have an insane amount of disk space. What's >the best way to accomplish this? Last time I tried it, the >partition ID numbers were all the same, making this difficult >if not impossible. FreeBSD and OpenBSD work fine (I've set it up, no problem). I haven't tried NetBSD yet, as my available disk space is not yet at the "insane" level (but I hope to be at that level within a week or two). If there is a conflict with NetBSD, you could use a boot manager to solve the problem. I have used PowerBoot from http://www.blueskyinnovations.com/pboot.html (about $30, IIRC), but I'm sure there are plenty of other options. You can have the boot-manager change the partition ID for one set of partitions when booting from some other partition, effectively hiding the partition. Once I do hit insane disk-levels, I'm more inclined to try for a vmware solution, as that means I can have multiple OS's active simultaneously. This would not be adequate for low- level (eg: drivers) or SMP development, but it should work fine for many of the things I do. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message