I need to know is it possible to install Freebsd with the following scenario

Windows 2000 pro installed first

Secondly installed Red-hat 8.0

and finally installing freebsd last

Maybe just for fun installing Novell OS 6.0 server to test out.

I know that you can partition the same drive up to 4 times.

I just bought 80 gig hard drive with 8 mbs caching on board.

This is how I am planning to divide the hard drive.

Windows 2000 pro (25 gigs)

Red-hat 8.0 (20 gigs)

Freebsd (not sure how large a sector to use willing to go up to 10 gigs)

Novell will only be a small portion about (5 gigs for testing)


Now I am new to Freebsd have been running red-hat for about 2 years. Will this scenario work....

not really, no. you will want to use a more comprehensive partition system for redhat surely.... e.g. a / partition, a /usr partition a /home partition etc... most of these will go inside a extended partition though which is just fine. the restriction you refer to is 4 *primary* partitions. you should be able to put bsd completely inside a extended partition. bsd is slightly different from linux as all it's other partitions are actually held inside a single partition, and ddon't use up extra partitions.

ooops had my frame of mind stuck in windows.

So your saying it is possible to run more then the number of os's listed above.

cause I would also like to give Manadrake a try......

ckone,

what's the size of your computer box? I'm asking because, if you have other HDs laying around not being used and your case is at least a mid tower, you could use TRIOS HD Selector. I went the TRIOS route at home and its the best thing I've done so far. Now I have Win2k Pro, FreeBSD and just got Win Server 2003 in the mail, all of them running in their own HD. Just a thought, tho.

I have a midrange tower and already own trios but, I really don't

like that idea I have about 3 hard drives laying around with about

20 gigs a piece but I have a only two spaces for hard drives.

Know if I had an anetec server case I might try that I really dont

like how much space it eats up and all those ribbon cables

hanging around.

I liked the product all the way up until I found out you could show the contents of my windows partition on my linux os. That and I could also use Virtual PC and just bye more memory save space in my computer and put my pc space to use.

you can have 63? logical drives in an extended partition I think
ranish partition manager will let you have 63 primary partitions,
but only one or 4 accesible at a time.

I'm using the ribbon cables that came with the TRIOS, which are just long enough to reach the drives. I don't have to worry about rerouting excess cable around the box. Ok, I guess you've tried that already. If I didn't have this big Antec case, then I probably would've gone the Connectix Virtual PC route.

Well I can say that the FreeBSD boot manager will let you boot into either win2k or FreeBSD but I don't know how well it will work with RH. I personally haven't installed linux and FreeBSD on the same system yet so I can't tell you anything there. If you just went with FreeBSD and win2k you would install win2k first and then FreeBSD putting the boot manager in the MBR.

if you install linux with it's boot loader in its own boot record, not
the master boot record, then install freebsd, freebsd's boot
manager will then be kickstarting windows, linux and freebsd.

And if you install lilo in master boot record, then you can boot Windows, FBSD and RH using only lilo.

I have Win98, FBSD, OBSD, RH on the same disk and boot them by lilo. For lilo I have the following lilo.config file in ./etc directory of linux (ext2) partition:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=250
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux

other=/dev/hda2
label = FreeBSD
table = /dev/hda

other=/dev/hda3
label = OpenBSD
table = /dev/hda

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda7

other=/dev/hda1
label=dos

For linux I use ext2 (not ext3) because I suppose that with ext3 I will not be able to see and manipulate linux files using OBSD.

Regards.

thanks for the tips....

ext3 is just ext2 with journaling, so if you can see and manipulate ext2, you should be able to see and manipulate ext3. I can only say for sure that this works with FreeBSD, because that's what I use, but it probably also works with OpenBSD.

See here:
http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/...?threadid=7142