ey thanks for this..good thing you stated it here, i might have put into garbage my swap partition if i didnt know this..thanks
lloyd On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 13:28, fooler wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "lloyd dagoc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:26 PM > Subject: Re: [plug] solaris and linux dual boot > > > > ooops im sorry...its on an x86 = ) > > i have here quadruple booting (w98, freebsd 4.5, linux 7.3 & solaris 8) on a > single disk... the main issue between linux and solaris is that, solaris > partition id is equal to linux swap partition id.. so therefore which ever > OS you install it first, the installer will confuse... what i did and i > trick the second OS installer is to manually remove the first OS partition > table inside the MBR sector only... but of course you must not allocate that > partition that is already allocated.. just leave it there as a blackhole so > that the second installer will see it as a free partition... later on after > the second OS installed, i manually return the partition table of the first > OS installed and alter the MBR appropriately. > > fooler. > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
