Dual Booting FreeBSD and Slackware
Well, here I am again, with an over due blog :p.
Lately I have taken special interest in the BSD's, They just seem pretty cool, I mean the whole "true to unix" thing sounds pretty appealing to me. I would love to go into the history of the BSD's, and a review on them, but I am lazy, and I will be doing a podcast on that here before too long. I am going to be starting a podcast with a guy named droops, and that's our first episode. So I will post a link to that sometime. Right now, I am interested on the dual booting issues of Slackware and FreeBSD.
Slackware is amazing, and I wouldn't trade it for the world, but I love playing around with other distributions, and FreeBSD is a cool one.
So lets get to it.
First what you should probably do, is set up some partitions beforehand. Just use fdisk, or if you are a gui nut, then use GParted, or QTparted or whatever. Anyway, I set up partitions like the following.
*already existent*
_______
|/dev/hda|
-------------
/dev/hda1 mounted on /
/dev/hda2 mounted as swap.
----------------------------------
Newly created partitions:
/dev/hda3
I just did this in Fdisk, and went ahead and set it as a FreeBSD type. I don't really care for a swap right now, or I will just use my existing swap.
Alright now here is what you want to do to get FreeBSD to show up in Lilo.
Since Lilo apparently did not want to accept that I had a FreeBSD install, (it's a very slackware jealous booter) I had to edit my /etc/lilo.conf and add the following line at the bottom:
other=dev/hda3
loader=/dev/hda3
table=/dev/hda
label=FreeBSD
This just tells lilo, yo I got another partition, it's in /dev/hda3 since you aren't smart enough to figure that out, it's bootable, it is on the /dev/hda drive, and it's called FreeBSD. :|
Anyway, Go ahead and install it, and Go through the partitoner there, and select your mount points. / on /dev/hda3 and swap on /dev/hda2 if you so chose. Those are my partitions, so just make sure you know what yours are before you go willy nilly and start formating crap :P
After that, you should have everything up and running, and beyond that, you are on your own. Unless you ask me for my help haha.
Sorry this has been so late, and yet so short. I have been uber busy. So...yeah. Hopefully I will get that podcast up, and pop a link on here.
Axl.
Lately I have taken special interest in the BSD's, They just seem pretty cool, I mean the whole "true to unix" thing sounds pretty appealing to me. I would love to go into the history of the BSD's, and a review on them, but I am lazy, and I will be doing a podcast on that here before too long. I am going to be starting a podcast with a guy named droops, and that's our first episode. So I will post a link to that sometime. Right now, I am interested on the dual booting issues of Slackware and FreeBSD.
Slackware is amazing, and I wouldn't trade it for the world, but I love playing around with other distributions, and FreeBSD is a cool one.
So lets get to it.
First what you should probably do, is set up some partitions beforehand. Just use fdisk, or if you are a gui nut, then use GParted, or QTparted or whatever. Anyway, I set up partitions like the following.
*already existent*
_______
|/dev/hda|
-------------
/dev/hda1 mounted on /
/dev/hda2 mounted as swap.
----------------------------------
Newly created partitions:
/dev/hda3
I just did this in Fdisk, and went ahead and set it as a FreeBSD type. I don't really care for a swap right now, or I will just use my existing swap.
Alright now here is what you want to do to get FreeBSD to show up in Lilo.
Since Lilo apparently did not want to accept that I had a FreeBSD install, (it's a very slackware jealous booter) I had to edit my /etc/lilo.conf and add the following line at the bottom:
other=dev/hda3
loader=/dev/hda3
table=/dev/hda
label=FreeBSD
This just tells lilo, yo I got another partition, it's in /dev/hda3 since you aren't smart enough to figure that out, it's bootable, it is on the /dev/hda drive, and it's called FreeBSD. :|
Anyway, Go ahead and install it, and Go through the partitoner there, and select your mount points. / on /dev/hda3 and swap on /dev/hda2 if you so chose. Those are my partitions, so just make sure you know what yours are before you go willy nilly and start formating crap :P
After that, you should have everything up and running, and beyond that, you are on your own. Unless you ask me for my help haha.
Sorry this has been so late, and yet so short. I have been uber busy. So...yeah. Hopefully I will get that podcast up, and pop a link on here.
Axl.
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