XP, Linux, and BSD all on the same HD

[Brian23]

Ok, I currently have just XP installed on my pc. I'm planning on reformatting. I want to install XP, linux and possibly BSD on my PC. I'm most familliar with xp, I want to learn BSD and I'm taking a class on Linux this fall. I'm not sure what distro we're going to have to use for the class, but I bet it will be suse or gentoo. Can I just load BSD and do all my programming from there and have it operate the same as a linux distro for school perposes? Also, what order should I install the OSes? I want to end up with grub or lilo as my bootloader.

Thanks!

 

[n0cmonkey]

OpenBSD has a doc about dualbooting with lesser OSes. Maybe whatever BSD you're planning on using has one too.

 

[sourceninja]

I always install windows first if the person I am setting up is going to dual boot. After that it doesn't matter what order you do BSD or linux
I have never used BSD, but I would assume you could do it with 4 partitions. a windows, a swap, a linux, and a bsd partition.

 

[Brian23]

Anyone know if BSD will let me do all my "Linux" programming without actually installing it as a seprate os?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Brian23
Anyone know if BSD will let me do all my "Linux" programming without actually installing it as a seprate os?

It uses the same tools for programming.

 

[Nothinman]

Anyone know if BSD will let me do all my "Linux" programming without actually installing it as a seprate os?

Depends on what your projects are.

If you really want to run all 3, pick one as your main OS and then get a copy of VMWare for it and put the rest inside of VMWare.

 

[sourceninja]

Oh yea, I totally forgot about vmware. I run a version of gentoo inside vmware that I use for testing when I suspect something might be bad for my pc. Vmware rocks!

 

[Brian23]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Anyone know if BSD will let me do all my "Linux" programming without actually installing it as a seprate os?

Depends on what your projects are.

If you really want to run all 3, pick one as your main OS and then get a copy of VMWare for it and put the rest inside of VMWare.

I've got Virtual PC for Win XP, but it runs very slow. I think I would be better off just installing on a seprate partition.

What I really want to know is what problems could I run into trying to write linux applications under BSD? I'd rather just load BSD and XP and skip Linux all together, but if BSD is uncompatible with Linux, then I probubly should install it too.

 

[n0cmonkey]

This might help. I haven't read it though.