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.
Cheers,
Matthew
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