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Mike etal. |
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i appreciate the suggestions and the reminder that the slice numbering |
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starts with 0, making the "whole disk" hda2. i plan to do some |
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experimentation when my schedule loosens up. i'm really curious to see |
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if sol10 can run some of the linux-compiled software. i can't imagine |
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it'll do it with no problems, but who knows ... |
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-- thanks, TT |
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> -------- Original Message -------- |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] getting started with gentoo + opensolaris |
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> From: "Mike Owen" <kyphros@×××××.com> |
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> Date: Fri, March 10, 2006 1:04 pm |
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> To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o |
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> |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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> > -- TIA, TT |
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> > |
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> > |
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> |
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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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> |
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> Do something like: |
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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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