Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 00:39:35 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM> Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020413003935.B34470@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <15543.20405.653991.106466@gargle.gargle.HOWL>; from Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM on Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 12:20:53AM %2B0300 References: <15543.20405.653991.106466@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 12:20:53AM +0300, Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - wrote: > Now I wanna install FreeBSD > on different slice and use same slice 1/b for swap. How I do this? I am not sure the answer to your question; but before wrong assumptions are made -- we do not support [FreeBSD] slices on Sparc64. For FreeBSD a "slice" is an M$-DOS PeeCee BIOS partition. A "partition" is the traditional BSD Unix 8 'a'-'h' partitions. It is my understanding Solaris can boot from any partition (SVR4 slice). I wonder if you can install Solaris -- creating 4 partitions 'a', 'b', 'c', 'h' (SVR4 slices 0,1,2,6). Use 'h' for Solaris /, swap to 'b'. Then boot the Solaris install and untar the FreeBSD bits into the 'a' partition. I assume the Solaris bootbocks will be at sector 0, before the label? Will the Solaris bootblocks load the FreeBSD '/boot/boot1' (ok boot disk0:a /boot/boot1)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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