[SunHELP] Disk Parition in Solaris

[Dale Ghent]

On Nov 14, 2003, at 10:05 PM, Asif Iqbal wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I am trying to install Solaris 8 on a Seagate disk (73gb) with the 
> following
> requirement
>
> slice 1 (swap) start at cylinder 0
> slice 0 (/) start at a higher cylinder
>
> However everytime I pick slice 1 at cylinder 0 and slice 0 at a higher 
> cylinder
> number it forces slice 0 to cylinder 0 and slice 1 to the next 
> available
> cylinder number

slice 0 is slice ZERO for a reason. It comes before all other slices on 
a disk. You cannot put swap as the first slice on a disk you want to 
boot off of.

There is no way to obtain your (rather odd) requirements.

/dale