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vicodin abuse Linux+Solaris HOWTO Max Berger v0.8-$Revision: 1.1 $, $Date: 2000/04/17 23:48:03 $ Describes how to use Linux (x86) a vicodin abuse d Solaris (x86) together on one machine ______________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents 1. Introduction vicodin abuse 1.1 Why Solaris? 1.2 Things covered in this HOWTO 1.3 Referenced versions 1.4 Warning 2. Preparing your Hard Drive 2.1 Traditio vicodin abuse al PC partitions 2.2 Solaris partition labels 2.3 Hard disk space 2.4 Quick check list 3. Preparing Linux 3.1 Building a new kernel vicodin abuse 3.2 Preparing your boot loader 4. Installing Solaris 4.1 Solaris interactive 4.2 Web-Start 4.3 Getting GNU-tools 5. Boot managing vicodin abuse 5.1 Using the Solaris boot manager 5.2 Using lilo 5.3 Using grub 6. Sharing data 6.1 Using a shared partition 6.2 Alternative wa vicodin abuse s 7. Running foreign binaries 7.1 Linux binaries on Solaris 7.2 Solaris binaries on Linux 8. Finding additional info 9. Credits and legal vicodin abuse stuff 9.1 Credits 9.2 Questions, comments, suggestions 9.3 License ____________________________________________________________________ vicodin abuse _ 1. Introduction 1.1. Why Solaris? This is actually a good question. Why use Solaris, when you can have Linux? Solaris is a commercial syste vicodin abuse , the hardware support is scarce. But if you are reading this you have probably already decided on using Solaris. If not, here are some reasons: vicodin abuse I have a part-time job administrating Solaris machines. It is of no use that I learning all the neat command parameters and nifty Linux tr vicodin abuse cks at home, when I can't use them on my Solaris-Box. · Sun was giving away Solaris for what they call ``Shipping and handling cost only'' for vicodin abuse some time. They might do that again. And almost-free-of-charge is always a good deal. · Another reason might be that you like CDE. 1.2. Thin vicodin abuse s covered in this HOWTO This HOWTO tries to help you install Solaris 7 or 8 on an x86 computer already running Linux. The main targets are · not vicodin abuse to destroy any data, see section ``Preparing your Harddrive'' · To make Linux and Solaris coexist (boot manager), see section ``Boot-Managing' vicodin abuse · To share data between Linux and Solaris, as described in section ``Sharing Data'' 1.3. Referenced versions The reference versions used w vicodin abuse ile creating this document where: · Solaris 7 x86 (= Solaris 2.7 / SunOS 5.7) · Solaris 8 x86 (= Solaris 2.8 / SunOS 5.8) · Linux 2.2.14, 2.3. vicodin abuse 9-pre3 · fdisk v2.10f The information might apply to other versions of the software, or it might all be different. 1.4. Warning Please vicodin abuse ack up any data before messing with your system! A lot of the things described in this document may result in excessive data loss! I am not respo vicodin abuse sible for any data loss! See also section ``Legal stuff'' 2. Preparing your Hard Drive To Prepare your hard-drive for Solaris, you need to know vicodin abuse bout standard PC partition tables and about Solaris disk slices. In this HOWTO I talk about single-disk systems only, but all the information sho vicodin abuse ld also apply to a multi-disk environment. 2.1. Traditional PC partitions The standard partition-table has only 4 entries. The entries important vicodin abuse for us are the following: A Primary Partition Takes up one entry, and contains exactly one partition. A waste of resources, but th vicodin abuse only partition you can boot from! An extended Partition Takes up one entry, but can contain multiple DOS, Linux, and other partit vicodin abuse ons A Solaris Partition Takes up one entry, but can contain multiple Solaris Partitions To find out what partitions are present on your vicodin abuse ystem, use the fdisk program. Partitions numbers 1 to 4 (hda1..4, sda1..4, ...) are the ones in your partition table. 2.2. Solaris partition lab vicodin abuse ls Solaris has its own partitioning scheme. It uses one entry in the partition table, and this entry is and acts as this partition would be the e vicodin abuse tire disk. This virtual disk is then divided in up to 8 slices. The third slice, s2, covers the whole virtual disk, so you actually have up to 7 s vicodin abuse ices for Solaris. Unfortunately, the Solaris partition entry has the same type as a Linux Swap partition (82). Therefore, you should not have any vicodin abuse Linux swap partitions as primary partitions. Linux doesn't care about this, but who knows what Solaris does? Although the Linux fdisk program has vicodin abuse some ``Sun disklabel'' support, this doesn't seem to help any. 2.3. Hard disk space Of course, Solaris needs disk space. The minimum installatio vicodin abuse of Solaris 8 is about 300 MB. For the normal tools its about 700 MB, and for a ``developer-system'' about 1 GB. But this is only the space requi vicodin abuse ed for the base installation. You might want to add a lot of GNU-Tools, and other stuff. And if you want to share data between Solaris and Linux, vicodin abuse his has to happen on the Solaris partitions. You might even think of sharing your home directories between Solaris and Linux. As the time of this vicodin abuse writing: Forget it! I messed up my home directory doing so and I was very happy about my backup. See also section ``sharing data'' 2.4. Quick ch vicodin abuse ck list Here's the quick check list. Make sure you: · have used no more than 3 entries in your partition table · have no Linux swap partitions vicodin abuse s primary partitions · Have at least 1 Linux ext2 partition as primary · Have at least 1 GB unpartitioned space 3. Preparing Linux 3.1. Buil vicodin abuse ing a new kernel Some people donīt like building a custom kernel. For those of you: you must build your own kernel if you want to share data betwe vicodin abuse n Solaris and Linux on one hard disk. If, however, you do not want to share data, you are safe with your old kernel. Here are your kernel options vicodin abuse for ``Solaris compatibility'': · Under code maturity: Prompt for development drivers Unfortunately UFS writing is still experimental. vicodin abuse In file systems: UFS file system support UFS is the Solaris file system UFS file system write support" The only way to pass vicodin abuse ata to Solaris partition types / Solaris (x86) partition table support" Is needed for the slices within your Solaris partition to vicodin abuse e found. Additional info about kernel building can be found in the Kernel- HOWTO 3.2. Preparing your boot loader Before messing with your vicodin abuse boot loader, please make sure that you have an emergency disk ready which enables you to boot your old system. Unfortunately the Solaris install o vicodin abuse erwrites the master boot record (MBR) and overwrites your old boot manager. Fortunately, the Solaris boot manager is able to chain-boot. For this vicodin abuse to work you have to put your old boot loader (e.g. lilo) into the boot sector of one primary Linux partition. For lilo this means: look at your /e vicodin abuse c/lilo.conf. Look for the boot= line. If it is something like boot=/dev/hda1 everything is fine. But if itīs something like boot=/dev/hda it point vicodin abuse to the MBR. Please change it to point to a primary Linux partition (e.g. boot=/dev/hda1) A way to check if your boot-loader is chain-loadable is vicodin abuse nstalling lilo in to the MBR and trying to chain load your other boot-manager. I used the following file called lilo.conf.mbr for this: _________ vicodin abuse ____________________________________________________________ #lilo.conf.mbr #Lilo in Master Boot Record doing nothing but chain-loading another lilo boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda5 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=ask delay=50 other=/dev/hda1 label=lilochain ______________________________________________________________________ You can then run lilo -C lilo.conf.mbr to install lilo into your MBR. And donīt forget to run lilo to have lilo in the boot sector of your hard-drive. If you reboot now, you should have a lilo-prompt. When you select other this chain loads the old lilo, which in turn loads Linux. 4. Installing Solaris 4.1. Solaris interactive Solaris 7 Solaris Interactive is on the first CD. Boot it, select Solaris interactive Solaris 8 On the Solaris 8 CDs the interactive installer is on the firs
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