Re: How could Install Solaris V10 into my PC with Windows XP Professional

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:11:38 -0800, Bill Waddington
<william.waddington@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:00:02 -0800 (PST), mommycalled@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Feb 23, 11:25 am, John Doe <john....@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mommycal...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 22, 11:25 am, pavelj <Pavel.Jeludov...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 22, 7:05 pm, Cydrome Leader <prese...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

socorroro...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I need to install Solaris V10 OS, but now I have my PC with Windows
XP Pro English and I'm wondering How could Install that OS and work
with both OS properly please? May you attach for me web links and
detailed information about this.
Best Regards
I'd suggest don't bother with dual booting. It's always a mess and in the
end, pretty pointless.
You're right man.
I had dual boot for a while and then gave it up.
My main problem was a shortage of space. Since Solaris can mount NTFS
as read-only. And Windows can't mount ufs or zfs at all. Fat32 was a
compromise but then i had to split my disk into 30gb chunks which made
things very inconvenient.

I recommend you install Windows and as much solaris as you need using
VMWARE. It's free and the performance is ok with powerful enough
machine.
Then use the Windows box as a storage for both OS's files using
CIFS(aka SMB or network sharing)
Or the other way around if you want. And if you wanna make things more
complicated create files on the Windows using SMB and then use them as
devices for ZFS pools.
I've installed windows first for games.

You're on the right track, but a bit backwards. Wpe you disk clean,
install Solaris-10 or better yet Open Solaris and then install VMware
so that you can run the occasional bug ridden machine crashing XP
program. There is very little reason to be running any version of
Windows except for gaming

You seem to be on the wrong track, there is no Host support in VMware
for Solaris 10 so what you suggest is not possible.

Maybe you meant Win4Solaris?

No I meant specifically VMWare. Both the VMWare site and Sun both say
that VMWare is certified to act as a host for linux and windows

That's right. VMWare can _host_ Linux, Windows, and Solaris clients.
That is not the same thing as VMWare running _on_ a Solaris host. The
statement you are quoting is referring to Linux and Windows clients,
not hosts.

Well, they can also be hosts, but Solaris can't. Check the VMWare
site. Workstation and Server, for example, only list Linux and
Windows as host OSs.

Bill
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