[linux-help] Re: Linux and BSD

[Randy Reames <randy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

12/5/2001 10:31:25 PM, Lars von dem Ast 
<mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>I already have RH7.2 on my box. Now I want to install BSD 
4.4 on a new hard 
>drive. Has anyone done this? I'm afraid of blowing out my 
RH7.2 if I just 
>start installing BSD. I'd like the RH (GRUB?) to come up 
with the pretty 
>graphic and give me the option to go Linux or BSD. Anyone 
out there been 
>there?
>
>Lb
>

First make sure you have a RH boot floppy for your 
installation, you did make one right? When installing 
FreeBSD do not let it touch your RH partitions/HD.

I haven't done a FreeBSD install in a while so it may ask 
you about modifying you MBR, I can't remember. Just don't 
let it if you can. After FreeBSD is installed, if it 
modified your MBR just use your RH boot floppy and edit your 
lilo.conf by adding the FreeBSD it will probably hdb or sdb
(if you are using SCSI) oh wait you want to use GRUB, well 
you have you check on the setting up grub, menu.lst(?). 

IIRC FreeBSD's bootloader should detect the RedHat, but 
since RH2 uses the newer filesystem it may not. Just don't 
allow it to mess with the RH hard drive, have a RH boot 
floppy and you should be able to configure GRUB to do what 
you want. 

Check out http://www.google.com/linux and 
http://www.google.com/bsd

Good luck!

Randy Reames


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