From owner-freebsd-sparc Sat Apr 13 0:40:54 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 4D3CF37B404 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 00:40:52 -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 g3D7epYm034604; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 00:40:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3D7daKI034562; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 00:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 00:39:35 -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: <20020413003935.B34470@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <15543.20405.653991.106466@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: <15543.20405.653991.106466@gargle.gargle.HOWL>; from Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM on Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 12:20:53AM +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 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