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by: dminer
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Can Opensolaris 2008.05 share a partition with
Nevada or S10?
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May 6, 2008 4:57 AM
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I appreciate that is is now possible to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 on a
partition alongside GNU/Linux, BSD, MS-Windows, OSX or _almost_ any
other X86 OS the user chooses. However, I would like to see the
capability of OpenSolaris to live alongside Solaris 10 or Solaris
Nevada. It takes some careful work during install and manual grub
configuration, but Solaris Nevada and Solaris 10 can share a partition.
Is there any way to confine OpenSolaris 2008.05 to a slice so it can
live alongside other Solaris distributions or must it live inside a
VirtualBox?
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Re: Can Opensolaris 2008.05 share a partition
with Nevada or S10?
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May 6, 2008 6:56 AM
in response to: bnitz
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Brian Nitz wrote:
> I appreciate that is is now possible to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 on a
> partition alongside GNU/Linux, BSD, MS-Windows, OSX or _almost_ any
> other X86 OS the user chooses. However, I would like to see the
> capability of OpenSolaris to live alongside Solaris 10 or Solaris
> Nevada. It takes some careful work during install and manual grub
> configuration, but Solaris Nevada and Solaris 10 can share a partition.
>
> Is there any way to confine OpenSolaris 2008.05 to a slice so it can
> live alongside other Solaris distributions or must it live inside a
> VirtualBox?
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I filed http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1223 to
preservice existing Solaris slices.
Steffen
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Re: Can Opensolaris 2008.05 share a partition
with Nevada or S10?
Posted:
May 6, 2008 10:40 AM
in response to: stw
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Steffen Weiberle wrote:
> Brian Nitz wrote:
>> I appreciate that is is now possible to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 on a
>> partition alongside GNU/Linux, BSD, MS-Windows, OSX or _almost_ any
>> other X86 OS the user chooses. However, I would like to see the
>> capability of OpenSolaris to live alongside Solaris 10 or Solaris
>> Nevada. It takes some careful work during install and manual grub
>> configuration, but Solaris Nevada and Solaris 10 can share a partition.
>>
>> Is there any way to confine OpenSolaris 2008.05 to a slice so it can
>> live alongside other Solaris distributions or must it live inside a
>> VirtualBox?
>> _______________________________________________
>> indiana-discuss mailing list
>> indiana-discuss at opensolaris dot org
>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
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> I filed http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1223 to
> preservice existing Solaris slices.
>
I'd suggest installing it as your primary and have Solaris 10 live in
the VirtualBox. Virtualization is a heck of a lot more convenient than
multi-booting for a lot of purposes.
But if your usage doesn't allow that, then multi-booting with Solaris 10
or Nevada is a manual process to set up. A couple of approaches:
1. Install OpenSolaris to an alternate disk (like a 4 GB USB flash
drive), boot from it, then add the slice in your multi-boot disk as a
mirror to the pool (zpool attach...). Let it resilver, then detach it.
Update GRUB menu in the multi-boot disk as needed.
2. Install OpenSolaris to an alternate disk or VirtualBox instance and
use zfs send/zfs recv to copy the datasets to a pool you create on the
slice in your multi-boot disk. Detlef Drewanz wrote up detailed
instructions for this internally (search nv-users archives), which I'm
hoping he'll post to a blog or something to share with the community.
Dave
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