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dual booting solaris 8 and win2k
Name: zuluzu2000 Date: March 13, 2003 at 07:57:22 Pacific OS: win2k prof CPU/Ram: pII, 64mb
Comment:
I have ibm PII comp with 64mb ram and 40gb hdd. I have partitioned the disk as 8gb NTFS partition and installed win2k prof. Next I have a 20 gb extended partition for data (NTFS). I want to install solaris 8 on the remaining 10 gb unpartitioned space. When I try to install solaris 8 it gives me an error saying the disk does not have enough space. The hdd is new and without any errors.
Name: TechMark Date: March 16, 2003 at 14:18:22 Pacific
Reply:
Iīm guessing but this could be because your partitions are placed the way they are on your hdd. W2k for instance canīt boot on partitions placed beyond the 8GB boundary (or atleast couldnīt, it might have been fixed). This can be your problem and in that case you will have to back up all your data and repartition your disk putting a X86boot partition as the first partition on the disk, this partition contain the bootmanager and is only a few MB in size.
On the other hand it can be that your Solaris release doesnīt recognize HHD space above 32GB, in that case you will have to search the SUN webpage for a patch. It should be a bootdisk image otherwise you will have a hard time getting it to work.
//TechMark
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Response Number 2
Name: majid99 Date: March 16, 2003 at 23:48:58 Pacific
Summary: Has anyone had success with dual boot of Solaris 8 and win2000? I have tried many suggestions but to no avail. Solaris 8 by itself is fine but with win2000 in a partition, solaris 8 came up once only....
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