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Old March 24th, 2004, 09:37 AM
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Hi all,
i would like to install FreeBSD on my laptop with SuSe, & RedHat ...
currently i have Win2003 & SuSe 9.0 installed in 2 partition, so im asking which OS i have to install first ? Redhat or FreeBSD ? any guides ?
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Old March 24th, 2004, 12:00 PM
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The order doesn't matter. The FreeBSD bootloader and Grub both can boot any OS (and should autodetect it). Just install windows first because otherwise it will break everything.

The only problem I spot here is that possibly your kernels have to be in the first 8GB (4GB?) of hard disk space, but this depends only on your BIOS. Give it a try, if one doesn't boot at all, this is probably the reason why. On recent hardware this should be no issue.

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Old March 25th, 2004, 02:48 AM
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The only problem I spot here is that possibly your kernels have to be in the first 8GB (4GB?) of hard disk space,

i have W2003 on 1st partiition whic is about 10 gb, seonds is also about 10gb, 3rd is about 4gb installed SuSe on it, and last 3gb i left it for FreeBSD, maybe i'll remove Suse and re-partion my entire disk ( except for Windows partion ) for these 3 *nix system ..

thanks, and im waiting for more suggestions
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Hirsch hit the nail on the head with this one, the order doesn't matter, only if you like the pretty bootloader, compared to the command bootloader. If you like GRUB, then install FreeBSD first, then Redhat. If you want FreeBSD's bootloader, install RedHat first... my question is... you have FreeBSD, why do you want Redhat/Suse?
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Old March 28th, 2004, 11:50 AM
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[ my question is... you have FreeBSD, why do you want Redhat/Suse? ]
SuSe for Programming Redhad for future use in our work..
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Okay but that still doesn't answer my question, I mean virtually you're doing the same thing, just with a different distrobution. Rarerly does anyone see the changes in such popular Linux distrobutions.
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Okay but that still doesn't answer my question, I mean virtually you're doing the same thing, just with a different distrobution. Rarerly does anyone see the changes in such popular Linux distrobutions.

hi again
i just installed suse over freebsd/windows, now i can boot either windows or suse, but not freebsd, i tried to add freebsd from grub configuratoin in YaST, but didn't know what to do exacltly..
how i can make grub recognize freebsd also ??
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Old April 12th, 2004, 12:49 PM
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hey i solved it, now i can boot suse/freebsd/win2003 ....
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ok. i am new to free bsd. i have done a fresh install of windows xp and i want to install suse and freebsd. i know that if i install freebsd then grub will not see it whenever i install suse. can you please tell me how to fix this.
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