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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: NetBSD & FreeBSD together?
Message-ID: <Cv5p57.HJJ@tfs.com>
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
References: <33j97u$9sd@nsmmfs07.nsm.ac.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 19:07:55 GMT
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In article <33j97u$9sd@nsmmfs07.nsm.ac.com>,
Brian Ginsbach - PRA <ginsbab@ac.com> wrote:
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>Has anyone successfully installed NetBSD & FreeBSD on the same disk at
>the same time?  Meaning that both are bootable (if you use something
>like os-bs, BootEasy etc).
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I do this:
they both live on the same partiton,

I use sd0a as the root for FreeBSD 
and sd0e as the root for NetBSD

so to boot NetBSD, I type:
sd(0,e)netbsd
and for FreeBSD
I let it default..

they have different fstab files so they mount differnt /usr
partitions as well, but I mount the same source partition and each
mount's the other's root partition as well, so I can fix netbsd from freebsd
and visa-versa.



julian
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