Re: Solaris 9 and Linux on same Hard Disk

From: Thomas Rates (analysis_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:04:12 -0500

I've tried to install Solaris using your recomendations, but when I get
to the manual configuration for the slices, it shows that there is
overlapping data. I don't understand why this is. No sectors overlap
those of any other partition. What gives?

Thomas

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:01:36 -0500, Thomas Rates wrote:
>
>
>>How do I install Linux and Solaris on the same HD?
>
>
> Prepare your partition table beforehand using Linux fdisk. Note that
> Solaris requires a primary partition of type 0x82. Change your Linux swap
> partition type to 0x83 also then change it back to 0x82 after the install.
>
> I have WinXP, Solaris 10_b58 and Slackware installed on a 30GB drive.
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 1095 8795556 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 * 1096 2190 8795587+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda3 2191 3649 11719417+ 85 Linux extended
> /dev/hda5 2191 2410 1767118+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 2411 2473 506016 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda7 2474 2505 257008+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 2506 3090 4698981 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 3091 3649 4490136 83 Linux
>
> Solaris is on /dev/hda2. All OSs are booted from lilo.
>

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