XP, Linux, BSD and all on the same HD [linux distro] [reformatting]
Q: Ok, Im currently only XP installed on my PC. Mem planning on reformatting. Wants me to install XP, Linux, BSD and possibly on my PC. I am most familiar with my XP, I want to learn and BSD Im taking a class on Linux this fall. Im not sure what distro were going to have to use for the class, but I bet it will be SUSE or Gentoo. Can I just load BSD and all my programs from there and do they have the same effect as a linux distro for perposes school? Also what order should I install the OS? I finish with grub or lilo as my bootloader.
Thanks!
Re:This (http://programming.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/07/19/1713230&tid=53) might help. I haven't read it though.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Anyone know if BSD will let me do all my "Linux" programming without actually installing it as a seprate os?
Depends on what your projects are.
If you really want to run all 3, pick one as your main OS and then get a copy of VMWare for it and put the rest inside of VMWare.
I've got Virtual PC for Win XP, but it runs very slow. I think I would be better off just installing on a seprate partition.
What I really want to know is what problems could I run into trying to write linux applications under BSD? I'd rather just load BSD and XP and skip Linux all together, but if BSD is uncompatible with Linux, then I probubly should install it too.
Re:Oh yea, I totally forgot about vmware. I run a version of gentoo inside vmware that I use for testing when I suspect something might be bad for my pc. Vmware rocks!
Re:Anyone know if BSD will let me do all my "Linux" programming without actually installing it as a seprate os?
Depends on what your projects are.
If you really want to run all 3, pick one as your main OS and then get a copy of VMWare for it and put the rest inside of VMWare.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Anyone know if BSD will let me do all my "Linux" programming without actually installing it as a seprate os?
It uses the same tools for programming.
Re:Anyone know if BSD will let me do all my "Linux" programming without actually installing it as a seprate os?
Re:I always install windows first if the person I am setting up is going to dual boot. After that it doesn't matter what order you do BSD or linux
I have never used BSD, but I would assume you could do it with 4 partitions. a windows, a swap, a linux, and a bsd partition.
Re:OpenBSD has a doc about dualbooting with lesser OSes. Maybe whatever BSD you're planning on using has one too.
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