Hi all,
Sorry for this OT post on this list.
I got hold of Solaris8 CD and wanted to try it out. Since Solaris installs
only on a primary partition, I had to remove my freebsd partition. At present
my partitions are as follows :
debian:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2096 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048256 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 256 766 4104607+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 767 961 1566337+ a5 BSD/386
/dev/hda4 962 2096 9116887+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 962 1326 2931831 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda6 1327 1691 2931831 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda7 1692 1946 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1947 1962 128488+ 82 Linux swap
Now when I boot the Solaris8 CD and reach the partitioning stage, the Solaris
fdisk asks me to create a Solaris partition. I removed BSD partition and created
the Solaris partition. Now the problem is, as u can see above my BSD partition
is below 1023 cylinder. However the Solaris shows the same partitions with
different cylinder numbers :
Partition # Size Start Cylinder
1 2GB 1 (Primary Partition)
2 4GB 4065 (Primary Partition)
3 1.5GB 12209 (Primary Partition)
4 8GB 15316 (Extended Partition)
As u can see, the Start Cylinder no. is completely different in Solaris ???
Due to this. Solaris fdisk complains that Solaris / is above 1023 cylinder limit
and asks me to correct it. I can not skip further without this.
Has anybody installed Solaris8 on this list ? Why solaris8 fdisk behaves as above ?
Any clues ?
Sorry for this long OT mail.
Thanks in advance.
Warm Regards
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