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From: evans@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com (Thomas Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI and Window NT in a single SCSI disk!
Date: 19 Mar 1996 16:48:10 GMT
Organization: ISSC South Region, RTP, NC
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In article <4iklpc$fs@anorak.coverform.lan>,
	brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes:
>Wee-San Lee (wlee@alcor.usc.edu) wrote:

>: Hi all,

>:       Sorry for the cross posting this time!

>:       I'm wondering if anybody out there has experience to install FOUR 
>: difference OS (FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI and Window NT) within a single 2 
>: Giga SCSI hard disk and make it multi-bootable.

As for Freebsd and netbsd, you'll have to change the boot code of one or
the other since they both use A5 as their partition type, and will get 
confused otherwise. I don't know about BSDI, I have OS/2, DOS, Netbsd,
and freebsd booting using the OS/2 bootmanager. 
-- 
Tom Evans
tjevans@rtp.ibm.com