Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:41:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill-S <bill@wiliweld.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: solaris Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0609040839040.23632@liam> In-Reply-To: <44FC4229.5050703@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20060903223518.f92a2112.dick@nagual.nl> <20060904050337.D1556@www.pukruppa.net> <5FC874DF-8811-4012-81A0-4B9F22BF399B@shire.net> <20060904145729.GA7110@lothlorien.nagual.nl> <44FC4229.5050703@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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At Mon, 4 Sep 2006 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > > >> I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition. > > > > I remember one of the FBSD's (a RC, but still) destroying my partition > > table. That's the reason I ask. I know that I don't have to use the main > > option (that's for the whole disk). But if there are no problems know of > > with the sol installer, than I'm a little less worried. I have no space to > > backup my XP and FBSD disk parts (at the moment). > > Back in the Solaris 8 days, the trick was to use fdisk to create a primary > partition and mark it as type 'Linux Swap' after which Solaris would happily > recognise it as a location to install into. > > Quite how it happened that Solaris uses the same partition type as Linux > swap is shrouded in the mists of time. > (giggle) If I recall correctly, there was some hacking to do too if you were dual-booting Solaris and Linux on the same disk for Solaris would try on use your whole Linux filesystem as its own swap location.
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