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From: oly@russ (Oliver Oberdorf)
Subject: Multi-BSD
Message-ID: <DLFwE3.6vs@cfanews.harvard.edu>
Summary: Multiple BSD OS drive
Keywords: FreeBSD NetBSD BSD *BSD Hurd Lites Mach
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Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:54:02 GMT
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I am trying to set up my hard drive with two OSs.
Specifically, I want to use NetBSD *and* FreeBSD.
I've done this easily under Linux, but I'm having
problems understanding BSD filesystem-isms.

What I want is one area of about 250 megs for
NetBSD and a larger (>500 meg) area for FreeBSD.

The NetBSD area is needed as a test/development
area while the FreeBSD area is a safe zone for my
normal use and important data/files.

For those of you who are curious, I got FreeBSD
2.0.5 on CD (Walnut Creek) in order to run Mach
in order to run Lites in order to run Hurd.  As
it happens, FreeBSD 2.0.5 is not suitable (2.0
would've been).  So I dl'd NetBSD which is OK.
Unfortunately, I was *really* impressed with
FreeBSD and want to run it now (instead of my
copy of Linux).  I could probably do all this
10 times easier with NetBSD/Linux, but where
would be the fun in that?

Thanks,

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~Oly
oly@head-cfa.harvard.edu