Re: Debian and Freebsd; booloader behaviour

2005-11-20 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:04:30AM +0100, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, > i would like to install Freebsd 6.0 in a separate partition within my HD in > which Debian Sid is perfectly running. > Does anyone had some advice on how to setup the freebsd bootloader during > installation to enable GRUB

Debian and Freebsd; booloader behaviour

2005-11-18 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list,    i would like to install Freebsd 6.0 in a separate partition within my HD in which Debian Sid is perfectly running. Does anyone had some advice on how to setup the freebsd bootloader during installation to enable GRUB (of my Debian box) to recognize the freebsd partition? Or in a secon

Re: Debian and FreeBSD - RESOLVED

2001-06-07 Thread burningclown
Thanks to -ALL- who offered help with this problem. I successfully used a bootdisk of GNU parted to resize my /dev/hda3 to make room for FreeBSD, then created a /dev/hda4. I re-ran lilo as parted suggested, rebooted, then used fdisk to change the type on /dev/hda4 to BSD/386. It all went without

Re: Debian and FreeBSD

2001-06-04 Thread Dragos Delcea
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All, > > This is a return to an oldie I started some time ago. > > Now I have FreeBSD on hand, I'd like to install it 'next to' Linux. > There's a FreeBSD + Linux HOWTO, and it answers some questions, but: > > I'm exploring GNU parted for partition resizing of my 30

Debian and FreeBSD

2001-06-03 Thread burningclown
All, This is a return to an oldie I started some time ago. Now I have FreeBSD on hand, I'd like to install it 'next to' Linux. There's a FreeBSD + Linux HOWTO, and it answers some questions, but: I'm exploring GNU parted for partition resizing of my 30G hard drive. I can it seems resize my curr

Re: Debian and FreeBSD

2001-01-27 Thread Tudor Oprea
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Glenn Becker wrote: > problem, but ... I don't know how to check how much of the main Deb > partition is occupied! This is, I guess, a basic admin task I should know > how to do, but ... I don't. use df, optionally with the -h(uman-readable) switch. oasis:~$ df -h Filesystem

Re: Debian and FreeBSD

2001-01-27 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:08:38PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > OK - please pardon me if this is a basic/duh-type question (I searched on > DebianHELP but no luck): > > I want to resize my main Debian/Linux partition to make room for a new > partition to hold FreeBSD. Take a look at GNU parte

Re: Debian and FreeBSD

2001-01-27 Thread Glenn Becker
OK - please pardon me if this is a basic/duh-type question (I searched on DebianHELP but no luck): I want to resize my main Debian/Linux partition to make room for a new partition to hold FreeBSD. I have a 30G hd so I doubt it will be a problem, but ... I don't know how to check how much of the m

Re: Debian and FreeBSD

2001-01-26 Thread Shell Hung
;; All, ;; ;; Just for yoks (and because I have a nice DSL connection wch allows me to ;; do such things) I was thinking I'd like to download FreeBSD and intall it ;; next to my present Debian install. ;; ;; If anyone knows some good documentation re: how to do this via ftp/how to ;; do it w/o sc

Debian and FreeBSD

2001-01-26 Thread Glenn Becker
All, Just for yoks (and because I have a nice DSL connection wch allows me to do such things) I was thinking I'd like to download FreeBSD and intall it next to my present Debian install. If anyone knows some good documentation re: how to do this via ftp/how to do it w/o screwin' up my Debian ins