Re: Manually creating a Debian boot sector Or a bootable Debian disk in Solaris for x86

2011-03-16 Thread A E [Gmail]
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Joseph Lenox lenox.jos...@gmail.comwrote: I've done some work with Solaris 10, trying to get rid of it for most of my workstations. I was unaware there was even a solaris 8 x86 install (I'd change the Solaris install to 10 as a matter of principle -- ZFS is

Re: Manually creating a Debian boot sector Or a bootable Debian disk in Solaris for x86

2011-03-15 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 03/14/2011 04:00 PM, A E [Gmail] wrote: Hello All, snip So, the question is, Does anyone know how to partition the 2nd HDD while in Solaris, install the Debian boot files and bare-bone kernel from boot.img.gz archive, initrd and vmlinuz on it so that when selected to boot from it, it

Manually creating a Debian boot sector Or a bootable Debian disk in Solaris for x86

2011-03-14 Thread A E [Gmail]
Hello All, I'd posted this question earlier but had confused myself during the process which didn't lead to much help from the community as the wrong questions were asked. So let me try again. I have a situation like so: an x86 machine with Solaris 8 preinstalled on it. It's an appliance from a