Hi Darren, Alex

yes - we are moving towards the point, when Solaris
can successfully be installed when there is already
Linux swap primary partition defined on the same disk.

At the time of being, there are some issues, which
cause that we are currently not able to install,
if Linux swap is present, but they are being solved:

6690824 fdisk(1M) corrupts Solaris VTOC, if there is Linux swap primary 
partition defined
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6690824

6670311 kernel picks up Linux swap partition (0x82) instead of Solaris2 (0xbf) 
one
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6670311

When former one is fixed, it will be possible to install Solaris
into Solaris2 (0xbf) partition, when it precedes Linux swap one (0x82).

Thank you,
Jan


Darren Kenny wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Linux Swap and the original Solaris partition type are the same fdisk id 
> (0x82)
> but since approx 2005 we've since updated to a new partition id (0xbf), which 
> is
> the default when you create a new "Solaris2" partition using OpenSolaris based
> s/w now - so it shouldn't be an issue any more - but maybe someone who works 
> on
> the Installer could confirm this.
>
> Darren.
>
> Alex wrote:
>> But how about swap? It have similar partition type in solaris and in linux, 
>> I read somewhere that may cause problems. Is that true?
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