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#! rnews 1321 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!labtam!news.mel.aone.net.au!OzEmail!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user Date: 4 Jun 1995 00:48:40 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3qqsco$sv5@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <D9M4x6.J6J@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie Keywords: Linux FreeBSD peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much) writes: >Want a written recipe? Well, I came to: >2. Do Your FreeBSD installation onto that partition. FreeBSD will find it > by the typebyte and (hopefully - but You did make a backup, anyway) stay > inside it. Thanks very much for your help. I did in fact do much as you suggest -- but at this stage one of the comments in the FreeBSD setup program led me to suspect that if I continued my Linux partitions might be affected. With your encouragement, I'll take the plunge and go past that point. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland