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by **Lars Balker Rasmusse** » Fri, 16 Jan 1998 04:00:00

> Hello. I'm currently not a Solaris user, but I'm thinking about
> buying Solaris 2.6 for the x86 platform. Does anyone know if
> Solaris can boot from an extended partition or does it need to boot
> from a primary partition?

I have successfully installed Solaris on an extended partition next to
a primary one with win95.
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Lars Balker Rasmussen "No."

by **Gordon Kei** » Tue, 20 Jan 1998 04:00:00

From my experience you have to have Win95 on your primary partition with
enough free space minimum 300 meg for stand-alone installation. When you go
to install Solaris you create a UNIX partition and the boot mgr takes over
the boot record. Make sure you have the UNIX partition as the active
partition.
IE: fdisk - select active partition - "select the partition that is UNKNOWN"

You should be good to go..

Good luck

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Booting Solaris (x86) from an extended partition

Booting Solaris (x86) from an extended partition

Booting Solaris (x86) from an extended partition