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From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: BSDI & Linux cohabitation
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Date: 12 Jan 1995 19:34:26 GMT
Organization: Solaris 2.4 research kitchen, D-41469 Neuss
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Muharem Hrnjadovic (hrnjad@spock.m.isar.de) wrote:
: I am running BSD/386 rel. 1.1 from BSDI on my i486-PC currently and plan
: to install Linux on it as well. I would like to install the two OSs in such
: a way that they share two FDISK-partitions on my harddisk. The harddisk
: would be partitioned like shown below:
: FDISK_1: Linux-Root & Swap
: FDISK_2: BSD/386-root & Swap
: FDISK_3: user
: FDISK_4: news
: After booting one of the OSs from the respective partition it should be able
: to mount and use the user- and news-partition normally.
: Is such a setup possible at all? Are there better setup-schemes? Do you
: know of a file system type the two OSs have in common?
: I would be glad to hear/read about any experiences (good/bad) you made
: with the setup described above (or with a similar one)...
This isn't possible, because Linux can't mount BSD's partitions and
vice versa (or has someone ported Linux fs to BSD ... ?).
So you had to use a fs type, that is supported by both OS: DOS ;-)
But that's possibly not what you want (performance aspects and limited
file names -8.3-).
Andreas ///
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