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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"