From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Apr 15 14:28:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719AF37B416 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:28:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3FLSKYm098998; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:28:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3FLR5ke098973; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:27:05 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020415142705.B98706@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <15543.20405.653991.106466@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20020413003935.B34470@dragon.nuxi.com> <15547.17438.866488.79313@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15547.17438.866488.79313@gargle.gargle.HOWL>; from Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:20:30AM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:20:30AM +0300, Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - wrote: > I've installed Solaris to 'd' and swap to 'b'. There is also 'a' > where I preserved space for FreeBSD. I don't understand how FreeBSD could > understand Solaris fs on 'a' or vice versa to do this untar? FreeBSD with a GEOM kernel can understand a Solaris FFS. A non-GEOM kernel can also, but fsck is deadly. At this point, though all you care about is that FreeBSD can understand a Solaris disk label. You can now boot the ISO and install FreeBSD onto 'a'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message