[CS-FSLUG] BSD for linux users

[Ed Hurst]

Jukka Y wrote:
> Now that I am back at home, I started again my adventures in BSD-land. I 
> prepared a installation media (cdrom) for FreeBSD, tried it once, but after 
> realizing the process has differences compared to linux, I decided to learn 
> more before actually diving into it (I try to preserve my win98/linux 
> installation, backups etc. which are alredy in a same machine).

That's what led me to write my tutorials. It's really different, and 
assumes a very high level of technical expertise. Once inside, it's not 
so bad. Getting inside is the tough part.

> http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php

Read that some time ago; yes, it's a good one.

> -Does FreeBSD installation recognize other installations in my harddrives and 
> does it offer a dual- (or triple-) boot options for them?

I believe it does, in that it allows you to exempt existing partitions 
from consideration. OTOH, they do not have a default boot manager that 
works like LILO or Grub as Linux does. I strongly advise you select the 
floppy boot option, by putting the Unix booter on a floppy.


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Ed Hurst
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