Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:11:37 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: solaris Message-ID: <44FC4229.5050703@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060904145729.GA7110@lothlorien.nagual.nl> References: <20060903223518.f92a2112.dick@nagual.nl> <20060904050337.D1556@www.pukruppa.net> <5FC874DF-8811-4012-81A0-4B9F22BF399B@shire.net> <20060904145729.GA7110@lothlorien.nagual.nl>
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dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>
>> I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition.
>
> I remember one of the FBSD's (a RC, but still) destroying my partition
> table. That's the reason I ask. I know that I don't have to use the main
> option (that's for the whole disk). But if there are no problems know of
> with the sol installer, than I'm a little less worried. I have no space to
> backup my XP and FBSD disk parts (at the moment).
Back in the Solaris 8 days, the trick was to use fdisk to create a primary
partition and mark it as type 'Linux Swap' after which Solaris would happily
recognise it as a location to install into.
Quite how it happened that Solaris uses the same partition type as Linux
swap is shrouded in the mists of time.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3
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