Thanks, Dave, for your confirmation of my intentions and assumptions, at least in general:
1. "The limitation in handling multiple Solaris fdisk partitions is a function of the disk target driver." This is what I was thinking: In order to handle a slice, you pick it up using the disk target driver. The latter only knows about one slice on a target, right. 2. (Thanks to Kyle), installation into another partition is 'safer'; exactly the reason why I wanted to do that in the first place, having hosed two installs in a single partition, while my Indiana-Preview in another partition was a success (aside from its lack of usability, which is why I simply fdisk-ed that partition. See, yet another reason with respect to adoption). Especially "the previews are not aimed at existing Solaris users" should make them *easy* to be used. As well as by the Linux-crowd, and the Solaris-crowd. Back to square 1: Another target is needed. If the kernel were to pick up the slices from within the partition into which grub points it at boot, like the installer, everything would be fine. (I don't pretend to know how easy this would be, though.) Uwe This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
