Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> [i]I thought I read somewhere that the fdisk spec says that there can only
>> be one fdisk partition of a particular type, thus your experiment in
>> creating two Solaris2 fdisk partitions is invalid and that is perhaps
>> why Solaris does not behave correctly.[/i]
>>
>
> I mentioned already:
>
> - Multiboot is a term introduced by GRUB and unrelated to your problem
>
> - Solaris x86 supports up to 16 slices in a primary fdisk partition.
> 14 of them are usable for your wishes. You don't get less partitions
> with Solaris than you get with Linux.
>
> So what is your problem?
>
>
His problem (as I read it) is that the different Solaris installers
don't (by default) make it easy to use those
slices.
The default GUI install for SXCE/SXDE creates only slices for the
BootEnv it is creating and one other.
The Indiana installer currently forces you to take the whole Solaris
Partition for the ZFS root pool.
Indiana should offer more choices later I beleive.
SXCE/SXDE, do offer (at the grub menu) the older manual install where
you could direct the installer on hom amny slices to create, what sizes,
and what to put where - but to most new users it's not obvious this is
there or how to get to it.
-Kyle
> Jörg
>
>
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