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Dual booting Window ME with Solaris8

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Name: Manjinder
Date: March 9, 2001 at 11:50:02 Pacific
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I have Hp P-iii system with window ME installed on it with 30gb Hard disk i want to install solaris 8 can i dual boot? can anybody guide me ?
Thanks.



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Name: Sayed Ahmed Sharaf
Date: March 11, 2001 at 02:57:07 Pacific
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Simply boot from the CD installer of Solaris, it will guid you. Pay attention the swap volume question, if you choose the wrong answer, your exiting ME will be corrupted. Having do that, every time you boot your machin, it will give option to choose which OS to boot with.


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Name: manjinder
Date: March 11, 2001 at 21:39:09 Pacific
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I tried to install from sun install CD it goes till it asks the the drive to select to boot the kernel i selected cd rom then its starts booting after while comes up with error that sbin/res and /sbin/uname :not found and these are not executed , It freezes thereafter ....please help me out Thanks


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