Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:29:28 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Bill-S <bill@wiliweld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: solaris Message-ID: <20060905052928.GG81402@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0609040839040.23632@liam> References: <20060903223518.f92a2112.dick@nagual.nl> <20060904050337.D1556@www.pukruppa.net> <5FC874DF-8811-4012-81A0-4B9F22BF399B@shire.net> <20060904145729.GA7110@lothlorien.nagual.nl> <44FC4229.5050703@infracaninophile.co.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.61.0609040839040.23632@liam>
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On 2006-09-04 08:41, Bill-S <bill@wiliweld.com> wrote: >At Mon, 4 Sep 2006 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed: >> Back in the Solaris 8 days, the trick was to use fdisk to create a primary >> partition and mark it as type 'Linux Swap' after which Solaris would happily >> recognise it as a location to install into. >> >> Quite how it happened that Solaris uses the same partition type as Linux >> swap is shrouded in the mists of time. > > (giggle) > > If I recall correctly, there was some hacking to do too if you were > dual-booting Solaris and Linux on the same disk for Solaris would > try on use your whole Linux filesystem as its own swap location. Wasn't it the other way around (i.e. Linux assuming that anything marked as "Linux swap", is fine for a swap partition, happily proceeding to trash your Solaris filesystems?). Still sounds like tons of fun though :)
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