[SunRescue] solaris 2.6 on a large eide drive
Mike Hebel
rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Jan 25 14:33:48 CST 2001
>>ok, i'm suffereing a brain disconnect today. is there
>>any disk size restriction built in 2.6 that would
>>prevent it from being installed on a 20gb or larger
>>eide drive?
Not that I can discern but I've been known to be both insane and wrong in
the same day. ;-)
>>i would like to install 8, 7 and 2.6 if possible in a
>>multi-slice/multi-boot scenario on my test/desktop
>>system to support all the o/s in the buildings....
>>
>>8 & 7 went fine onto their own slices, but one time i
>>tried this awhile back it turned my drive into an 8gb.
>>
>>if i remember right, 2.6 wouldn't let me protect the
>>already created other slices during the install like 7
>>& 8 did....
IMHO this probably means that you have to install 2.6 first then 7, then 8.
YMMV
>>any words of wisdom besides a second smaller disk??
"How do you know he's the king!" "He's the only one who hasn't got shit on
him!" - The Holy Grail *grin*
Mike Hebel
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