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Ace69

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I have a few questions before I attempt ANOTHER install. Currently, I have Red Hat 7.1 and WIN98 dual booting with LILO. I already have a 2GB primary partition for FreeBSD.

1. Should I install the boot manager that comes with FreeBSD or should I try to have LILO load it?
2. What if the install goes corrupt AGAIN? How can I get LILO back instead of reformatting?
3. I have read that FreeBSD makes partitions inside of the slice, how big should these be?
4. I am reading linuxdoc.org and it says that after installing Linux, I have to recompile the kernel to include UFS filesystem support and BSD disklabel support. Do I really have to do this?

I guess that is it for now until I get into it.

 
1. I like FreeBSD's bootloader, but LILO works well. If you like LILO, keep it.
2. Do you have a Linux bootdisk? It should be as simple as booting into single user mode and probably running lilo (but Im not positive)
3. The autopartitioning should be fine for now. Since you are going to be learning this stuff you wont know what to partition for, and since we dont know what you are going to be doing we cant tell ya 😉

I would however, make /var and / a little bigger than they make it, but it should be ok, especially with only 2GB.

4. You dont have to. You can do it to be able to access the FreeBSD partitions from Linux, but FreeBSD should be able to access ext2fs by default (and run linux binaries!) so it shouldnt be a problem.
 
I finally got it installed, but I had a few complications as expected. I installed the boot manager, but I lost the ability to boot from Linux. I still have WIN98 and FreeBSD, but no Linux. 🙁 O well, I will just reinstall. I feel the only way to learn these types of things is to screw things up and hit it again. I am just glad that I don't have any pertinent data on any OS partition.

Does anyone know how to get Linux back? Also, I am having a time getting X configured properly with FreeBSD, is there a utility where I can change the resolution for this?


 


<< I finally got it installed, but I had a few complications as expected. I installed the boot manager, but I lost the ability to boot from Linux. I still have WIN98 and FreeBSD, but no Linux. 🙁 O well, I will just reinstall. I feel the only way to learn these types of things is to screw things up and hit it again. I am just glad that I don't have any pertinent data on any OS partition.

Does anyone know how to get Linux back? Also, I am having a time getting X configured properly with FreeBSD, is there a utility where I can change the resolution for this? >>



For linux you can try reading the docs on how ot setup the freebsd bootmanager or you can try reloading lilo. With X in FreeBSD you should be able to run xf86config, XF86Setup (3.3.6), or xf86cfg (4.x) or just edit the config file.
 
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