Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:27:05 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020415142705.B98706@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <15547.17438.866488.79313@gargle.gargle.HOWL>; from Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:20:30AM %2B0300 References: <15543.20405.653991.106466@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20020413003935.B34470@dragon.nuxi.com> <15547.17438.866488.79313@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:20:30AM +0300, Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - wrote: > I've installed Solaris to 'd' and swap to 'b'. There is also 'a' > where I preserved space for FreeBSD. I don't understand how FreeBSD could > understand Solaris fs on 'a' or vice versa to do this untar? FreeBSD with a GEOM kernel can understand a Solaris FFS. A non-GEOM kernel can also, but fsck is deadly. At this point, though all you care about is that FreeBSD can understand a Solaris disk label. You can now boot the ISO and install FreeBSD onto 'a'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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