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From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To: Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM>
Cc: Steven Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>,
	Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD?
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Apparently, On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:37:45PM +0300,
	Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - said words to the effect of;

> Steven Ames writes:
>  > Slightly off topic... but after installing freebsd (on the whole disk
>  > including
>  > updating the bootblocks), my Solaris 8 CD won't install anymore. Its
>  > pretty funny. For kicks I tried Solaris 6 and it would install. Solaris 7
>  > also
>  > did. But 8 always gets an 'unable to format' error. Not that I care overmuch
>  > as I'm eagerly waiting for FBSD/sparc64 to be able to 'make world' locally
>  > and run X.
>  > 
>  > The above was on an ultra5 and an IDE disk using the 20020303 and
>  > 20020408 ISO.
>  > 
> Problem is that FreeBSD destroy Solaris label which contains name and
> size of the disk.  If you boot Solaris after use of FreeBSD disklabel
> you see something like on this format and you have to give all disk
> parameters manually.

Try the older cd image I guess; I don't use sun disklabels so I haven't
tested it at all, I know other people have used them.

Jake

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