From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 8 16:51:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6753937BB6F for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 16:51:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from coretel-185-252.charm.net (coretel-185-252.charm.net [162.33.185.252]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA27573; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 19:51:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 23:51:43 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) From: Dutch Collins To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual boot - FreeBSD 3.4-R/Solaris 8 In-Reply-To: <20000708151038.E183@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 15:10:39 -0700 > From: Crist J. Clark > Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu > To: Dutch Collins > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Dual boot - FreeBSD 3.4-R/Solaris 8 > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 08:28:55PM +0100, Dutch Collins wrote: > > 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. > > > > OR, I am crazy. > > You may be crazy. I was thinking of putting Slowlaris on a Pentium (no > pro or numbers), but when I looked at the "supported hardware[0]" > list at Sun I was not encouraged. The lowest end chip I recall was > P-MMX 200[1]. > > I don't know if Solaris will run on a 486... or if it does if it would > even be usable. > > ObFreeBSD: I don't know how the Solaris boot works on i386, so I can't > help with the dual boot. > > [0] Actually a compatible or "successfully attempted on" list. The > URL, > > http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl/index.html#S8 > > [1] Does such a beast even exist? 200 MHz plain Pentiums? > thanks. I *know* there is a book around here that covers dual boot (win98/nt) and hardware. I do have a pentiun box but the chip has no marking except Pentium. This is a goofy idea I guess. Back to my BSD firewall. -d -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message