Tripple boot with FreeBSD
 

Hi, I was wondering how difficult it would be to get a multiboot system with the folowing operating systems:-

Gentoo
Slackware
FreeBSD
XP

I currently have Mandrake 9.1 and XP but I want to change my distro - I can't make up my mind about Gentoo or Slackware, that's why I'm going to install both temperarly and I want to play around with FreeBSD. I have lots of unused HD space so I may as well use it.

Will I encounter any problems while doing this? Will it be easier with GRUB or LILO?

Thanks.

I don't think that you can install XP(or any other winXX) and FreeBSD together. FreeBSD needs a primary partition for its installation, and if you install WinXP the partition order will be hda1, hda5 etc. So, you will not have a primary partition for FreeBSD. But you can install Linux and FreeBSD together.

You can also install Linux and then FreeBSD, as the bootloader of FreeBSD is good and automatically detects Linux partitions.

Any way, this was based on my experirnce, and is not the final word.

That's BS dude.. I triple boot winxp, freebsd, and red hat. installed in that order.

just install winxp first, bsd second, and the os that will run the boot loader third. configuring should be easy. red hat sets it up too easily.

peace.

EDIT:: i am using grub for the boot loader.

Slack 9 and XP installed, FreeBSD on it's way. I'll just choose not to install a boot loader and updatemy existing GRUB.

sounds like a plan... let us know how it goes!

Here is a step by step on triple booting

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Win+BSD+Linu...html/index.htm