On 7/7/06, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 15:00 +1000, James C. McPherson wrote:
>> I have run dual-boot (Solaris + MS-Windows) and triple boot (Solaris
>> + MS-Windows + Debian) without issues, installed from scratch using
>> the relevant OS installer, and have not had any problems.
> Is there a limitation for OpenSolaris/Solaris or even Nexenta such it
> has to be installed into a Primary partition(like FreeBSD) or can it
> also take Extended partitions?
Hi Ow Mun,
at the moment there is a limitation -- you cannot at this point install
Solaris into a DOS Extended Partition. This is the subject of a PSARC
case though, so I believe it's fair to say that that should change in
the not too distant future :)
Isn't that what W.Wayne Liauh is really concerned with?
It's not about dual-boot Solaris + Linux, or Solaris + Windows.
It's about dual-boot two OpenSolaris distributions: Solaris/Nevada + NexentaOS/BeneliX/SchilliX.
x86 systems allow up to four different fdisk partitions on a disk. Only one of them can be Solaris partition.
Now you have confirmed Solaris currently cannot be installed into a DOS Extended Partition.
So the question is, can we install two OpenSolaris distributions (or two versions of the same distribution) to one disk? two disks?
Tao
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