Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:40:37
Message-Id: 45283AD8.6020403@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris by gentuxx
1 gentuxx wrote:
2 > I'm running into an issue where the installer doesn't recognize the
3 > drive layout of the "big" drive I have in there now. Is there a way
4 > with the gentoo-sparc InstallCD that I can reset the CHS settings in the
5 > partition map to something the (uber-picky) Solaris install script would
6 > recognize?
7
8 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
9
10 Running that from the Gentoo CD will clear off the disklabel created by fdisk.
11 Then the Solaris installer can choose whatever settings it wants for the drive.
12
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14 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
15 Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project
16 Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxiate on a phallus"
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris Hamish Greig <hgreig@×××××××××××.au>
Re: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris gentuxx <gentuxx@×××××.com>