Hi, Miroslav Nachev wrote: > May I read and write to NTFS partition from OpenSolaris? There's a driver on the belenix website
http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=download for reading NTFS partitions (but not writing) Writing NTFS is not possible as far as I know. A possible workaround worth trying may be to install windows in a qemu virtual pc. regards Bernd > > > Miro. > > On 2/4/08, *James Carlson* <james.d.carlson at sun.com > <mailto:james.d.carlson at sun.com>> wrote: > > Ian Collins writes: > > Miroslav Nachev wrote: > > > After that I do new installation but then my existing data is > lost. Is > > > there any option to prevent disk formating and erasing? > > > > > > > > You should learn to use Live Upgrade, then if an upgrade fails, > you can > > revert back to your previous version. > > > > You would be better working out what went wrong (knowing which > version > > you upgraded from would help) and fixing it. > > Both of those sound like good pieces of advice to me -- particularly > the bit about providing as much information as you can with a problem > report, as we can't do much to fix "my Solaris stop working." > > But to answer the original question, yes, you can do that. I would > suggest placing the Solaris installation on a separate disk slice (or > a completely separate disk). When you do the re-install, you tell the > installer to preserve the data slices and which disk to use. > > If you use ZFS, it's even easier, as you can import those file > systems, and ZFS figures out where the old mount points go and all > that. (With UFS, you'll need to keep this information written down > somewhere so that you can restore the /etc/vfstab entries.) > > Of course, this is UNIX, and re-installing to fix problems seems at > least a little odd ... > > -- > James Carlson, Solaris > Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com > <mailto:james.d.carlson at sun.com>> > Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 > 442 2084 > MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 > 442 1677 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > -- Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html M s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar . Fidel Castro
