Quote:>I am running a Win95/NT box, with the first partition on the first disk
>being my Win95 FAT/active boot partition. On both of my hard drives,
>however, I still have plenty of unpartitioned space. Therefore:
>1. Can I install Solaris x86 to a partition other than the first partition
>on my first disk?
Yes.
Quote:> If not, can Solaris write it's boot info. to the 1st FAT
>partition, and then install the rest of the packages to another partition?
>The installation guide says this isn't possible, but the guide assumes that
>all space on the disk is taken up.
This doesn't make sense. The order of partitions on a drive is not
significant; the one which the BIOS passes control to is the 'active'
partition, and this needs to be one with a multi-boot manager in order
to select multiple operating systems.
The Solaris partition has this functionality, but is restricted in
that it can only choose between operating systems on the same disc
and it cannot be configured or disabled (except it disables itself
if there are no other operating systems in the same disc).
If you want a minimal installation on the BIOS bootable disc,
you can get away with only root on the boot disk, and root only
needs to be 20Mb (30Mb might be safer).
Quote:> Would a program like system commander help me here?
System Commander is useful if you want to install Solaris entirely
on a disc which is not bootable with the PC's BIOS, i.e. unlike the
Solaris boot manager, it can choose between operating systems on
different discs.
You can also do this using the Solaris installation floppy which is
basically an extension to your PC's BIOS to enable it to boot off
almost anything. However, if you boot often or unattended, you will
not find this very satisfactory.
Quote:>2. I have two hard drives, and I would like to use both for my solaris
>installation. Can I do either of the following?
> 1. install Solaris to a stripe set.
Don't know.
Quote:> 2. create two partitions, and install half the packages to each partition.
You don't split by packages, you split by slices (filing systems,
swap space). You want to distribute slices between your two
discs. (BTW, you can only have a single Solaris partition on any
disc.)
You could take a look at:
http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/solaris/filesystems.html
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