[SunHELP] Installing Solaris 10 on a logical partition

[fabio]

Instead of waste money on a VMWare license, get another disc or by a 
second hand ultra sparc workstation.

Daniel Tahin wrote:

>Yes, you have right. I think there isn't any other solution left :-))
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>The SunHELP List <sunhelp at sunhelp.org> schrieb am 18.04.05 21:50:35:
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>>Use vmware (get a demo copy).  It works really well for sol 9 x86 
>>running under windows
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>>Simon
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>>Phil Stracchino wrote:
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>>>Daniel Tahin wrote:
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>>>>Hello!
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>>>>I have downloaded Solaris 10 for PC, to getting familiar with it. I'm very new in Solaris:-)
>>>>To install it, i use the bootable CD-image. Installing it, is very simple, but i would like to install it in a logical partition, because i  need the available 4 primary partition, since there is other OS's on the PC (e.g. Windows), that like a primary partition to be installed in.
>>>>It seems the install-wizard doesn't allow this. I tryed to create a logical partition under Linux, and change the partition-ID to 0xBF (this was the ID of the primary partition, after the installation), but the install-wizard didn't recognize it.
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>>>>Can you help me at this problem, or is this possible at all?
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>>>You cannot turn a logical partition into a primary partition simply by
>>>changing its ID.  The structures are physically different, and if
>>>Solaris x86 requires a physical partition and you have none available,
>>>you're out of luck.
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>>>Have you considered installing another disk?  This would give you four
>>>more primary partitions available.
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