Solaris and Windows compatibility
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Original Message
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Name: Sang
Date: March 6, 2002 at 08:10:50 Pacific
Subject: Solaris and Windows compatibility
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Comment: Hi,
I recently built my comp, with an AMD athlon XP 1500+. I have a 40 Gig hard drive, and currently win2k installed.Can I make a partition and have Solaris run on my comp along with win2k ? Please help me in this regard.
Thank you.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Sebastian
Date: March 8, 2002 at 09:58:56 Pacific
Subject: Solaris and Windows compatibility |
Reply: (edit)Yeah, Solaris will run alongside Win2k on seperate partitions - not so sure about them being able to view each other yet tho. When I tried to install Solaris into about %Gb worth of Unallocated space on one of my drives, Solaris wouldn't have any of it. I had to format the Unallocated space as FAT32/NTFS or whatever under Win2k, then boot back into Solaris, tell it to delete the FAT32/NTFS partition and then install itself into that partition. All works fine on that front ... my problem now is trying to get some *nix variant running alongside them both, with a decent enough bootloader to boot into 3 different OS'es. Cheers,
Sebastian
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Response Number 2
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Name: NickMkhn
Date: March 17, 2002 at 10:24:37 Pacific
Subject: Solaris and Windows compatibility
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Reply: (edit)Re: “…tell it to delete the FAT32/NTFS partition…” Hi Sebastian:
Could you explain, please, how to work around my problem with Solaris 7 or 8 installation beside the Win2K, just some details on what I’m missing probably.
How to delete the Win (FAT or NTFS) partition from Solaris fdisk? I can see only the options: Solaris, PRI DOS, unused. I try to install and get stupid “Slice extends beyond…”
I had the Solaris 8 installed on the same machine, I installed it first time successfully on 2843 MB of unallocated space (after I deleted FAT32 from Win2K).
Then I lost my Solaris after I had to reinstall the Win2K, and now I can’t get the Solaris back.
Please, any ideas???
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