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Name: deji
Date: May 17, 2001 at 18:21:07 Pacific
Subject: Installing Solaris 8 on 2nd hard disk
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Dear all

I have two hard disks. I have win98 and 2k on the fisrt. Can anyone tell me how I can install solaris 8 on the second hard disk.

Thanks a lot in advance.


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Response Number 1
Name: Sreenivas Bhaskara
Date: June 1, 2001 at 13:24:55 Pacific
Subject: Installing Solaris 8 on 2nd hard disk
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Hi,

You cann't install onto 2nd hard disk, as architecture of Intel machines needs to boot an operating system from primary hard disk.

Work around:

Install solaris OS in the 2nd hard disk connecting as primary. Use system commander or boot manager s/w's. Installing which prompts you to select the hard drive to boot from.


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Response Number 2
Name: Bubba Gump
Date: June 18, 2001 at 13:12:26 Pacific
Subject: Installing Solaris 8 on 2nd hard disk
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If you had both installed as masters, could not you just change the boot order in the bios everytime you switch between oses.

Bubba


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Response Number 3
Name: Mik
Date: June 22, 2001 at 02:49:30 Pacific
Subject: Installing Solaris 8 on 2nd hard disk
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I have Win98 on 1st HD and Solaris & Linux on 2nd. I have to swap the bios setting to make my Primary Slave the boot disk to boot Solaris, to boot Linux I have to use a boot floppy as well.

It's a bit of a nash on but it it works.

I'm trying to find out if it's possible to make it easier but I'm not having much success!!

Mik


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Response Number 4
Name: Anil Shinde
Date: November 1, 2001 at 16:02:17 Pacific
Subject: Installing Solaris 8 on 2nd hard disk
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Dear Sreenivas Bhaskara,

As u have suggested, to install solaris 8 on another hard drive and use system commander for booting multiple OSes. I have 2 hard drives the primary disk(master) has win 98 installed and there is another disk as slave. I have system commander 2000 installed.

I tried to install solaris 8 for IA on the slave disk, but unfortunately the System commander does not recognise solaris, I would appreciate if u can educate me on how can I install solaris 8, my feeling is I must be doing something wrong while installation solaris.

Please help !


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