> Wow, that sounds complicated.

Yes.  It would be nice if the opensolaris
installer could just reuse an existing zpool...

> To answer your question, Solaris 10 is installed
> using UFS.  Is this going to be a problem? 

Yes, that's a problem. OpenSolaris installs into
a zpool / zfs root. (SX:CE supports both UFS
and ZFS root)

> Does it have to be ZFS?

Yes.  (I think the opensolaris beadm stuff and the
package management needs zfs)


> Basically what I want to do is have Solaris 10 on 1
> HDD and OpenSolaris on a second HDD and be able to
> choose which OS I want to boot from.  Is this
> possible?

That should be possible. IIRC, the opensolaris installer
does not mess with the data on HDD#1 when installing to
HDD#2. 

I think you have to tell your system's bios to boot from 
HDD#2, at least until you manually construct a grub
boot entry on your regular S10 HDD#1 disk, that is able
to boot opensolaris from HDD#2.
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