>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 29 17:28:18 2004 >> Would you be willing to do a test with Solaris? >> >> Get the Solaris CD images from: >> http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html#x86 >> >> for free... installation is simple and takes less than one hour. >> >> If you start with CD 1 of 2, you need one free primary partition with at >> least >> 3 GB of free space >> >> If you start with the "Installation CD", you need two primary partitions.
>Well, I've played with this for way more than an hour already. Why not? >The folks at linux-usb-devel (i.e., Alan Stern) also want me to recompile my >linux kernel with usb-storage debugging on. So this could take a couple of >days. >Question about installation: I current have /boot, root, /home and swap >partitions on my drive. The /home partition is very large, and I could make >room for Solaris there. I see that Partition Magic 8 supports ext3 volumes >(I have PM8). Do you know if this works? Can I resize the /home partition >with PM8? Or is there a better way to do this under Linux? I don't know if you could shrink the Linux partition. Note that I always install Linux in an extedned partition because Linux likes to call a Solaris Partition a "Linux Swap" partition. Fortunately, it does not swap on it immediately if there is no Linux swap signature on it. For a Solaris installation you _always_ need at least one primary partition. >I take it you're recommending that I start with CD 1 and leave myself a >single 3+GB partition? N.B.: If you install _all_ from Sun + the Solaris Software companion CD you need > 3 GB for the installation without the swap space and without /export/home. The Solaris Software companion CD is on a different place at Suns server and contains 1 GB of free software such as GCC.... Well if you just give it a try and if you have a free primary partition, you could assign the primary partition to the free space and set it to fdisk partition type 0x82. If you then insert CD 1 of 2 it should be fairly easy. What NIC do you have and what graphics card? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]