Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 01:57:44 EST From: jay@map.com (Roland Jay Roberts) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HPFS and FreeBSD Message-ID: <m0taeJH-003uWCC@wormhole>
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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. // ------------------------------------- | |\ _,,,---,,_ // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - | ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ // Internet: jay@map.com | |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' // FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5 | '---''(_/--' `-'\_)
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