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Dual booting
Name: melwin Date: November 15, 2002 at 04:02:29 Pacific OS: Solaris 8 -intel CPU/Ram: P4 /256
Comment:
Hi
Is it possible to make Solaris dual booting with linux...........
Name: Bob Date: November 15, 2002 at 13:19:14 Pacific
Reply:
Good luck! Although it is thoeretically possible, I never got it to work. The Solaris install program always read the existing partitions as overlapping, so there were a *lot* of install problems. After that, Solaris uses the same partition type as the Linux Swap, so there were unresolvable boot errors.
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Response Number 2
Name: Bob Date: November 15, 2002 at 13:22:57 Pacific
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Also, The Solaris partioning tool always left gaps of unused space on the hard drive - very sloppy. Using a reliable third-party partitioning tool (such as Ranish) didn't work either, because the Solaris installer always read the partitions as overlapping and wouldn't procede with the install.
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Response Number 3
Name: 0blar Date: November 16, 2002 at 00:25:06 Pacific
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http://multiboot.solaris-x86.org/
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Response Number 4
Name: AlanRB Date: November 30, 2002 at 20:43:50 Pacific
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I am currently triple-booting WinXP (1st partition), Solaris 8 and Red Hat 8 installed in that order using Linux GRUB boot loader - most flexible boot-loader for this setup. I suggest you pick up the November issue of Sys Admin (Journal for UNIX Sys Admins) and read the article on multi-booting...should help you out. The trick is to leave an extended empty partition (3-4 cylinders) after the Solaris install and use Linux fdisk to setup this and your Linux install after it.
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