Bob Plantz wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 18:53 +1300, Ian Collins wrote: > >> Robert Plantz wrote: >> >>> I am planning to coalesce /dev/sda4, /dev/sda5, and /dev/sda6 for my >>> OpenSolaris partition. Do I need a swap for OpenSolaris? If so, do I need >>> to move it to start at 19093 and end at 19457? >>> >>> >> No, as I said in the reply you didn't quote, "Solaris uses either a >> slice within a partition or a filesystem within a ZFS pool for swap". >> OpenSolaris only supports ZFS boot, so swap is a ZFS volume. Solaris >> only uses one FDISK partition. >> >> > > Thank you, Ian. > > So I can simply coalesce my unused fdisk partitions and install > OpenSolaris there, right? > > Yes, that should work. When you do, make the combined partition ID 82 Linux swap / Solaris to help the installer.
> BTW, I apologize for not quoting you before. I'm new to this forum and > was using the web interface. (Too much Ubuntu.) Now I see that email is > a better way. > > :) I wish more people followed your example. -- Ian. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
