Hello all,
I'm just about to buy a new machine with a 20GB HDD and I need to decide
how I am going to partition it. I want to run the following operating
systems, in order of use:

1. Netbsd 1.5 (with linux emulation)
2. Nt4
3. "real" linux distribution

The main question is concerning linux and emulation. I do run Linux
binaries on another netbsd machine and so I had to install a package which
was a dummy linux system mounted as a shadow root. So the linux binaries
are run using libraries and config files that are in the linux root. Is it
possible for me to install a full linux distribution on one partition,
mount that root as a shadow root in netbsd so I am able to run binaries
from that linux system.

So if I install a linux distribution on another partition can I mount it
as a shadow root and run binaries off it that will still use the linux
libraries and not the netbsd ones? 

The reason for this is that I would prefer to run Netbsd but might need
linux apps to run, so if they don't work emulated (because of kernel
calls) then I can always boot that partition and all linux binaries will
work. 

Here is what I have come up with for my scheme so far:

2GB for NetBSD 
swap:	256
root:	150
usr:	1594

17GB for NT4 (least used OS with most used filesystem, NTFS4)
c:	500
d:	12000

1GB for possible Linux distribution. 

I would appriciate any suggestions anyone would have.

Why does NetBSD use SUSE as the Linux emulation environement?
(As apposed to one of the other linux flavors)

Thanks!

Ben



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