On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 18:53 +1300, Ian Collins wrote:
> Robert Plantz wrote:
> >
> > I am planning to coalesce /dev/sda4, /dev/sda5, and /dev/sda6 for my 
> > OpenSolaris partition. Do I need a swap for OpenSolaris? If so, do I need 
> > to move it to start at 19093 and end at 19457?
> >   
> No, as I said in the reply you didn't quote, "Solaris uses either a
> slice within a partition or a filesystem within a ZFS pool for swap". 
> OpenSolaris only supports ZFS boot, so swap is a ZFS volume. Solaris
> only uses one FDISK partition.
> 

Thank you, Ian.

So I can simply coalesce my unused fdisk partitions and install
OpenSolaris there, right?

BTW, I apologize for not quoting you before. I'm new to this forum and
was using the web interface. (Too much Ubuntu.) Now I see that email is
a better way.

Bob


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