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by **Ltemo** » Sun, 25 Jan 1998 04:00:00

Quote:>Can anyone tell me if Solaris can boot from an
>extended partition
>or must it boot from a primary partition?

I run Solaris 2.5.1 and run a boot partition in one drive and my app from
another drive. You need a /swap file in each partition covering the entire
partion size. Use fdisk in your install program for Solaris. I have seen boot
partitions as small as 14MB but 350MB will hold the entire /(root) system. This
is helpful if you want to run a duel boot.

Larry

by **Donald Charles Kue** » Wed, 28 Jan 1998 04:00:00

AFAIK Solaris must use a primary partition. In my travels, Linux is the only
PC unix smart enough to know about extended partitions.

: >Can anyone tell me if Solaris can boot from an
: >extended partition
: >or must it boot from a primary partition?

by **Logan Sh** » Wed, 28 Jan 1998 04:00:00

>: >Can anyone tell me if Solaris can boot from an
>: >extended partition
>: >or must it boot from a primary partition?

Quote:>AFAIK Solaris must use a primary partition. In my travels, Linux is the only
>PC unix smart enough to know about extended partitions.

I think it is not the same for all versions of Solaris x86. I have
Solaris 2.6 for x86 on my PC at home, and Windows 95 is on the primary
partition, but Solaris 2.6 is on the extended partition.

- Logan, who thinks the notion of "primary" and
"extended" parititions is thoroughly bogus.

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