Would it be okay to have

*Windows XP Pro w/ SP2
*SUSE Linux 9.1 Personal
*FreeBSD 5.3

On A Single 80gb Disk? With an AMD Athlon 2400+ 2.00ghz ???
Please reply, I want to make my decesion. Thank you all in advanced.

sure is.

While I have Slackware installed besides WinXP, and would like to install FreeBSD also - I have LILO installed. Can someone tell me what to do in setup while choosing where to write the bootloader for BSD? disk1 = winxp, disk2a = Slack, disk2b will be BSD. Also I am considering of making a RAID 0 with my 2 hard drives. Is there anything I should be careful about when installing BSD?



Thank you!

http://www.freebsd.org/
Check out the FAQ and the Handbook. Its all there. You can also search this forum.

You also need to decide if you're going to use RAID before continuing. Can't do both.

Hey, sure
I have WinXP, Slackware, Debian and Fedora Core all on a single 80GB disk and have space to spare.

yes... officially you ca have 4 operating systems on a single disk, given the 4 primary partion limit. Though it is possible to have more, so long as you have a boot loader capable of booting to an extended partition.

An easy-to-use example is GAG

Or better even, GRUB.
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/grub/

LILO can boot from extended partitions. My Slackware is on hda6 and it works fine.

My 40GB has XP, Adamantix Linux and OpenBSD. It is Adamantix grub that is allowing me to load an OS at boot time from these 3. I just edited grub and added and entry for OpenBSD and XP.

I installed windows then fedora with a the bootlader option booting to the second partition. then i installed mandrake with the boot loader installed into the primary partition with xp. after i installed the mandrake i told mandrake to look for the fedora it found it and can boot up any of the three

How about putting Novell on top of Linux and BSD in Primary partitions? Am using LILO and things okay fine w. hidden DOS. If not GRUB, then would GAG effectively replace another mbr-resident manager (such as System Commander) ??

Would like a SW-RAIDed system booting to :

1. DOS -- > Novell (SYS:SYSTEM on ext'd partition)
2. Debian/Slackware Linux
3. FreeBSD

GAG at http://gag.sourceforge.net/

Just a thought. using SW-RAID, what drivers would you use? Linux has raidtools/md/kernel/fd partition combo, while FreeBSD uses vinum. Seems these would need to have individual RAID partition(s).

I don't have a clear picture of the plan.

Currently on two hdd's, /boot, hidden DOS for future 50MB Novell startup files, FreeBSD (non-RAID) -- all on primaries. Debian/Slackware /md#'s on extended's for SW RAID-1. All on separate partitions, but managed by LILO in /boot. Linux as root partition bootable in LILO as /dev/hda#.
LILO href at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html

Plan is to have all three OS's SW level-1 RAID'd (and eventually level-5 more hdd's). Mounted Novell volumes to go onto extended RAID-1/5 hdd's. RAID-1 is basic slower mirroring compared to RAID-5.

RAID Refs already checked out for Linux
-and- FreeBSD :
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-adv/raid.htm
http://www.vinumvm.org/

I'm familiar with setting up RAID. I was trying to get it clear in my mind that you are going to setup 3 separate RAID systems on one computer.