solaris

[Bill-S]

At Mon, 4 Sep 2006 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed:

> dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> > 
> >> I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition.
> > 
> > I remember one of the FBSD's (a RC, but still) destroying my partition
> > table. That's the reason I ask. I know that I don't have to use the main
> > option (that's for the whole disk). But if there are no problems know of
> > with the sol installer, than I'm a little less worried. I have no space to
> > backup my XP and FBSD disk parts (at the moment).
> 
> Back in the Solaris 8 days, the trick was to use fdisk to create a primary
> partition and mark it as type 'Linux Swap' after which Solaris would happily
> recognise it as a location to install into.
> 
> Quite how it happened that Solaris uses the same partition type as Linux
> swap is shrouded in the mists of time.  
> 

(giggle)

If I recall correctly, there was some hacking to do too if you were
dual-booting Solaris and Linux on the same disk for Solaris would
try on use your whole Linux filesystem as its own swap location.