From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 3:53:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dastor.albury.net.au (dastor.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F57F37B5D9 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 03:53:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicks@dastor.albury.net.au) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by dastor.albury.net.au (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e69ArZl00703; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:53:35 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:53:35 +1000 From: Nick Slager To: Dutch Collins Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual boot - FreeBSD 3.4-R/Solaris 8 Message-ID: <20000709205334.A467@albury.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from dutch@charm.net on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 08:28:55PM +0100 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Dutch Collins (dutch@charm.net): > Has anyone tried to setup a dual boot, FreeBSD 3.4-R and Solaris 8. I > would like to tinker with my 'free' Solaris on a 486/100. I am > thinking of; a) two partitions on a single drive, b) BSD on wd0 and > Solaris on wd2. I used to have 3.4 on my system with Solaris 7. It now has 4.0-STABLE, Solaris 8 and Win 2k. I use the Solaris boot manager to choose which OS to boot. If you have two drives, install Solaris on its own disk. That being said, I have a single 18Gb SCSI drive, but the installation caused copious loss of blood and sweat :-) The Solaris web-install thingie will actually create two partitions. It's prone to failure, though, and most people recommend the 'standard' install. Don't even think about running Solaris on a 486. It'll basically be unusable. Also, Solaris 8 discontinued ISA (and presumably VESA) bus support, so you'll need a PCI machine to install anyway. Regards, Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message