Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is it possible to arrange for dual booting oi hipster and Solaris 11.3 on a single disk?

2017-01-21 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Since I first asked this, I have decided that my real need is actually to be able to "get the next oi" w/o formally upgrading. There's another mail conversation in discuss on this. The object is to install the latest "oi151a7+std srss" compatible oi or hipster. And then get an upgradable be chain

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is it possible to arrange for dual booting oi hipster and Solaris 11.3 on a single disk?

2017-01-21 Thread Jim Klimov
20 января 2017 г. 22:20:09 CET, Peter Tribble пишет: >On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Hans J Albertsson < >hans.j.alberts...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm just wondering. > > >I would say not. > >If you just have the one disk, then you're limited to them sharing the >same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is it possible to arrange for dual booting oi hipster and Solaris 11.3 on a single disk?

2017-01-20 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Hans J Albertsson < hans.j.alberts...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm just wondering. I would say not. If you just have the one disk, then you're limited to them sharing the same disk partition (there are limitations about there only being one solaris partition on a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is it possible to arrange for dual booting oi hipster and Solaris 11.3 on a single disk?

2017-01-20 Thread Hans J Albertsson
VirtualBox is not a very efficient way. It doesn't get very near the iron. However, there is no use case for dualbooting for keeps, the intention is to avoid pkg update and get to the next version by installing it bro a new be, in order to retain a recovery path if it fails. Hans J. Albertsson

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is it possible to arrange for dual booting oi hipster and Solaris 11.3 on a single disk?

2017-01-20 Thread John D Groenveld
In message , Hans J Albertsson writes: >I'm just wondering. What's your use case for dual booting? Running Solaris inside VirtualBox seems like less of a headache for disk partitioning and boot loading. John groenv...@acm.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Is it possible to arrange for dual booting oi hipster and Solaris 11.3 on a single disk?

2017-01-19 Thread Hans J Albertsson
I'm just wondering. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss