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On 3/10/06, telecomtom@×××××××.com <telecomtom@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> greetings gentoosparc users, |
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> I've got a sunblade 100 with 80GB HD left over from a move last year. |
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> I'd like to get it up and running, with dual boot of gentoosparc and |
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> opensolaris, and to use some of the files like email in |
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> slices/partitions that will be accessed by both operating systems. Has |
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> anyone done this? successfully? are there any gotchas to watch out for? |
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> I remember something about slice 3 being for the "whole system". Is that |
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> still necessary with new operating systems like gentoo and opensolaris, |
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> or is it an issue with sun hardware? |
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> -- TIA, TT |
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It's certainly possible, but it won't be the easiest thing. To make |
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life a little saner, I recommend using 1 big root partition, because |
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it's a lot harder to forget which partition is which that way :) |
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Do something like: |
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/dev/hda1 - solaris / |
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/dev/hda2 - common swap |
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/dev/hda3 - whole disk |
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/dev/hda4 - linux / |
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Partition and install with Solaris, and make sure it runs. Install |
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Gentoo on hda4, and setup SILO to load linux off of hda4 and Solaris |
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off of hda1. The example silo.conf has details on how to boot a |
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Solaris partition. |
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It's possible to compile ufs support into the kernel, and with 2.6.15 |
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I had no read/write problems. However, I was unable to ever get the |
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Debian ufs.fsck to build properly, so if the ufs partition needs a |
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fsck done, you won't be able to mount it rw. |
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HTH, |
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Mike |
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