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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:04:30 -0800
From: Andrew <andrew@violet.org>
To: David Bein <bein@pyramid.com>
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Subject: Re: Freebsd and Solaris 2.x on x86 platforms ...
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On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 03:51:59AM -0500, David Bein wrote:
> 
>   Has anyone out there ever succeeded in sharing a single disk
> (using the FDISK facility) with Solaris on one partition and
> FreeBSD on the other? If so, I'd like to hear from you. Also,
> the same question, but instead substitute NT 4.0 for Solaris
> 2.x on x86.
> 

David,

Yes, this is actually very easy...  I actually used the
FreeBSD `fdisk' to cut my 4.3gb disk in half, installed
Solaris 2.6 on the second half, then installed FreeBSD
3.0 on the first half.  Since both OS's like to install
a boot manager... I installed `booteasy' attempting to
overwrite the Solaris boot manager, but it seems (i
could be wrong) that the Solaris boot manager resides
within the Solaris partition!@#$ because after booteasy
decides that I want to boot from `Linux swap' (i.e.
Solaris 2.6) I am suddenly transported into the Solaris
boot manager... anyway... the short story is that the
two OS's coexist quite nicely, however cannot read each
others filesystems...

Cordially,

_____________________________________________
Andrew Perkins              andrew@violet.org
System Administrator             415.739.0540

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