I think you understand very well what I meant. My mistake was the "why is Solaris still not multiboot-compliant?" Though it might be, along to the lines of the standard, it can't live with another partition containing another Solaris on the same drive. If I am wrong, correct me, please. I tried that 2-systems-in-a-single-partition (live-upgrade) once, and - despite of all my efforts and my requests in here - it remained completely hosed, requiring an fdisk. As long as that stuff is unreliable, and not supported out of the box - no installer has ever offered me "I see that you have a Solaris partition with a free slice (sn) into which I could install this system, without touching the existing one, promised" - selecting another partition as target at least leaves the first install working. I also understand that the slices can't be resized, meaning that I can't add a third one, a /third_root. Or maybe the partition isn't large enough for 3 versions? If one wants adoption, maybe one has to make life easier!
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