Cyril Plisko wrote:
On 1/16/07, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pavan Chandrashekar - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> Darren J Moffat wrote:
>> Pavan T C wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The aim of the project is to enable the installation and booting
>>> of OpenSolaris from an extended partition.
>>
>> What is an extended partition in this context ?
>>
>
> Oh, apologies for the room for ambiguity.
> It is DOS/Windows Extended partitions.
>
> [
> To be exact, the partition IDS are :
> EXTDOS - Systid 5
> FDISK_EXTLBA - Systid 15
> ]
So why should we be installing an OpenSolaris distribution in to a
partition type that belongs to DOS/Windows ?
That is not entirely correct. Extended partition, IIRC, allows you
to break the limit of 4 primary partition per disk. Once the extended
partition is created another 4 partitions can be nested inside it.
And so on. Think Russian dolls.
Yes but the partition IDs that this project is suggesting be used are
explicitly tagged as being for DOS or Windows.
There are also Linux Extended (85) partitions as well, so why not
(ab)use those too ?
There are several other values tagged as being "extended" partitions, if
the list I'm looking at is upto date there at at least another 8 in
addition to the two DOS/Windows ones listed above that the Linux
Extended one.
Lets look at this the other way would it be acceptable for some version
of Windows or Linux to install itself into a slice in a Solaris VTOC
inside a Solaris tagged fdisk partition ?
--
Darren J Moffat
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