From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 11:19:41 2010 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 4D15D106566B for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:19:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from u.tabak@tudelft.nl) Received: from mailservice.tudelft.nl (mailservice.tudelft.nl [130.161.131.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 036888FC12 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavis (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3CB108C0F7; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:53:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tudelft.nl X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -24.389 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-24.389 tagged_above=-99 required=5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599, PROLO_LEO3=0.01, TUD_REL01=-20] autolearn=ham Received: from mailservice.tudelft.nl ([130.161.131.74]) by localhost (tudelft.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id mwB5WXqrc1ue; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:53:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp-a.tudelft.nl (smtp-a.tudelft.nl [130.161.180.7]) by mx3.tudelft.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72922108C0C0; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:53:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [130.161.18.177] (dutw689.wbmt.tudelft.nl [130.161.18.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-a.tudelft.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E14B3A63; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:53:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C5BE9ED.8000700@tudelft.nl> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:54:37 +0200 From: Umut Tabak User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100620 Icedove/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: me References: <4C5BB236.7040206@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd along with debian 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: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:19:41 -0000 On 08/06/2010 12:48 PM, me wrote: > and you have a free primary partition lying around then you can > install FreeBSD normally using the free primary partition as your BSD > slice and making BSD partitions over it. > When FreeBSD ask you about Bootloader chose to leave the MBR untouched. > Once FreeBSD is installed you can boot into Debian and add FreeBSD > entry in grub's config file. > Next time you reboot you should get option to boot in Debian or > FreeBSD right from GRUB. > Yep, I have Debian installed already, and on my new AMD powered desktop, I have an unformatted partition which I left for FreeBsd, so it seems straight forward(I was guessing this but wanted to consult again to be sure.), I should read a bit more and then give that a try. Thx