Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: Mike Owen <kyphros@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:37:10
Message-Id: 8f5ca2210610091136t4b49d860q86471e02202eb1ba@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris by gentuxx
1 On 10/7/06, gentuxx <gentuxx@×××××.com> wrote:
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5 > Hi All,
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7 > I have an Ultra5 that I was running gentoo on (quite happily I might
8 > add). But a recent project requires that I switch it to Solaris
9 > (preferably 10, but 9 would work too).
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11 > I'm running into an issue where the installer doesn't recognize the
12 > drive layout of the "big" drive I have in there now. Is there a way
13 > with the gentoo-sparc InstallCD that I can reset the CHS settings in the
14 > partition map to something the (uber-picky) Solaris install script would
15 > recognize?
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18 What size is the drive? If it's over about 130GB, you could be running
19 into a problem with the archaic IDE controller on that Ultra 5.
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22 Mike
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Re: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris gentuxx <gentuxx@×××××.com>