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vicodin addiction Linux+Solaris HOWTO Max Berger v0.8-$Revision: 1.1 $, $Date: 2000/04/1 vicodin addiction 23:48:03 $ Describes how to use Linux (x86) and Solaris (x86) together on one machine __________ vicodin addiction ___________________________________________________________ Table of Contents 1. Introduction vicodin addiction .1 Why Solaris? 1.2 Things covered in this HOWTO 1.3 Referenced versions 1.4 Warning 2. vicodin addiction Preparing your Hard Drive 2.1 Traditional PC partitions 2.2 Solaris partition labels 2.3 vicodin addiction Hard disk space 2.4 Quick check list 3. Preparing Linux 3.1 Building a new kernel 3.2 P vicodin addiction eparing your boot loader 4. Installing Solaris 4.1 Solaris interactive 4.2 Web-Start 4. vicodin addiction Getting GNU-tools 5. Boot managing 5.1 Using the Solaris boot manager 5.2 Using lilo 5 vicodin addiction 3 Using grub 6. Sharing data 6.1 Using a shared partition 6.2 Alternative ways 7. 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Referenced versions The reference versions used while creating this document where: · S vicodin addiction laris 7 x86 (= Solaris 2.7 / SunOS 5.7) · Solaris 8 x86 (= Solaris 2.8 / SunOS 5.8) · Linux 2.2. vicodin addiction 4, 2.3.99-pre3 · fdisk v2.10f The information might apply to other versions of the software, o vicodin addiction it might all be different. 1.4. Warning Please back up any data before messing with your sys vicodin addiction em! A lot of the things described in this document may result in excessive data loss! I am not re vicodin addiction ponsible for any data loss! See also section ``Legal stuff'' 2. Preparing your Hard Drive To Pre vicodin addiction are your hard-drive for Solaris, you need to know about standard PC partition tables and about Sola vicodin addiction is disk slices. In this HOWTO I talk about single-disk systems only, but all the information shoul vicodin addiction also apply to a multi-disk environment. 2.1. Traditional PC partitions The standard partition-ta vicodin addiction le has only 4 entries. The entries important for us are the following: A Primary Partition vicodin addiction Takes up one entry, and contains exactly one partition. A waste of resources, but the only vicodin addiction artition you can boot from! An extended Partition Takes up one entry, but can contain mul vicodin addiction iple DOS, Linux, and other partitions A Solaris Partition Takes up one entry, but vicodin addiction an contain multiple Solaris Partitions To find out what partitions are present on your system, use vicodin addiction he fdisk program. Partitions numbers 1 to 4 (hda1..4, sda1..4, ...) are the ones in your partition vicodin addiction table. 2.2. Solaris partition labels Solaris has its own partitioning scheme. It uses one entry i vicodin addiction the partition table, and this entry is and acts as this partition would be the entire disk. This vicodin addiction virtual disk is then divided in up to 8 slices. The third slice, s2, covers the whole virtual disk, vicodin addiction so you actually have up to 7 slices for Solaris. Unfortunately, the Solaris partition entry has th vicodin addiction same type as a Linux Swap partition (82). Therefore, you should not have any Linux swap partition vicodin addiction as primary partitions. Linux doesn't care about this, but who knows what Solaris does? Although t vicodin addiction e Linux fdisk program has some ``Sun disklabel'' support, this doesn't seem to help any. 2.3. Har vicodin addiction disk space Of course, Solaris needs disk space. The minimum installation of Solaris 8 is about 30 vicodin addiction MB. For the normal tools its about 700 MB, and for a ``developer-system'' about 1 GB. But this is vicodin addiction only the space required for the base installation. You might want to add a lot of GNU-Tools, and ot vicodin addiction er stuff. And if you want to share data between Solaris and Linux, this has to happen on the Solar vicodin addiction s partitions. You might even think of sharing your home directories between Solaris and Linux. As the time of this 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 check 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 as primary partitions · Have at least 1 Linux ext2 partition as primary · Have at least 1 GB unpartitioned space 3. Preparing Linux 3.1. Building 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 between 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 for ``Solaris compatibility'': · Under code maturity: Prompt for development drivers Unfortunately UFS writing is still experimental. · In file systems:
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