BSD Category

[fos]

Welcome to the new BSD forum category.

Back in the early 90s, I remember reading a series of articles in the C Users Journal written by William & Lynn Jolitz about an open source version of BSD called 386BSD. The source code was essentially published in a series of articles over a year or more. The articles were almost a graduate course in operating system development. At the end of the series, CUJ published a CDROM of the articles and an installation could actually be developed from the cdrom.

Since 386BSD was one of the pioneering opensource unix clones, I am giving it a place of prominence here in the Linux Agora Forum.

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Ref: http://jolitz.telemuse.net/c/lynn-jolitz/lynne-greer-jolitz/lynne-jolitzs-386bsd-r10-reference-cd-rom:-essays-on-kernel-design/lynne-messner/-67902762

[danieldk]

I started with FreeBSD (2.1.5) in 1996, later around 2000 with OpenBSD and NetBSD. I have always liked the BSDs. My main workstation runs CentOS en NetBSD.

[Leon]

Anyone using FreeBSD 6.1? I'm waiting for the 6.1 DVD.

I'd like to hear from users. I started with 5.3 last year after buying a copy of Rod Smith's book. Installation was straight forward, although I had to reconfigure X several times before it worked properly; Xorg seems to be uncomfortable with Solaris 10 x86 as well.

[alpino]

Hello! Just another (silent-lurker) refugee from Libranet (from 2.6 to 3.0). I would like to try DesktopBSD on my Vaio laptop. Did anyone tried this distro yet ?
Anyadvices, hints or suggestionS.
Cheers.
Patrizio

[Leon]

Is anyone is running FreeBSD 6.2 in a multi-boot system?
If you are using GRUB, please post your /boot/grub/menu.lst.

I cannot get FreeBSD to boot. My setup has Fedora core 6 in hda1, and FreeBSD in hda3, a primary partition. Hda2 is an unused (at the moment) partition marked as VFAT. Using the FreeBSD bootloader, the system freezes at boot displaying the boot options; Fedora's GRUB does not boot FreeBSD using the GRUB setup per info GRUB.

[Leon]

I've finally gotten around to building a new box (Core 2 Duo 2.2 gHz) and plan to do a FreeBSD 7 64-bit install. I'd like to be able to install some Linuces as well. My previous experiments with running other OS's on the same drive with FreBSD have not worked; either GRUB does not chainload FreeBSD, or the FreeBSD bootloader does not initiate GRUB.

I found a post last night that suggested I need to use a /boot ext2 partition in order for FreeBSD's bootloader to recognize the Linux. Can anyone verify this?

[danieldk]

I don't think that is necessary, since the FreeBSD boot selector will just jump to the bootloader of the partition that is chosen. IIRC, it needs to be a primary partition. So you could install GRUB to a primary partition, and add it to the FreeBSD boot menu.