Dual Booting Windows and Solaris

Hey I did a quick google search for you. So I havent tried this method myself but it sounds reasonable.

The text below is from the following link:

http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix1/DualBoot.htm

"Solaris boot loader

Partition the drive to leave at least 2GB of space available for Solaris;

more drive space is desirable.

As with Linux, install Windows first then Solaris.

Do not use the Installation CD but boot and install

from Software CD 1.

If you accept the default partitioning scheme which

the installer provides you will soon run out of space in

your / and /usr partitions since only enough space is

allocated to install the system.

All extra space is allocated to /export/home.

A typical installation on a 4.5GB partition might look

something like this:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/dsk/c0d0s0900M 536M 310M 64% /

/dev/dsk/c0d0s1334M 109M 192M 36% /var

swap671M 8.0k 671M1% /var/run

swap671M 8.0k 671M1% /tmp

/dev/dsk/c0d0s5845M 222M 565M 29% /opt

# (FAT32 partition):

/dev/dsk/c0d0p0:15.0G 3.3G 1.6G 66% /c

/dev/dsk/c0d0s71.1G92M 954M9% /export/home

/dev/dsk/c0d0s4752M 225M 474M 33% /usr/local

The Solaris boot selector enables you to choose either

Solaris or Windows with Solaris as the default.

(I prefer grub or lilo!)

To mount FAT under Solaris:

# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d0p0:c /dos (or ?1?)

And the vfstab file:

/dev/dsk/c0d0p0:c - /dos pcfs - yes -

To create a GRUB boot floppy, follow these steps:

$ mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0

$ mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0

$ mkdir /mnt/fd0/boot /mnt/fd0/boot/grub

$ cp /boot/grub/stage[12] /boot/grub/grub.conf \

> /mnt/fd0/boot/grub

$ /sbin/grub --batch <

"

Hope this helps!

/Oscar

OscarA at 2007-7-6 22:27:03 >

Hi

I created a new Solaris Partition and this seemed to work

I now have a dual booting system

I tried to dual boot my Laptop but I am encountering an error :

The cd boots up and generates an error saying

/dev/diskette0: can't open - bios configuration error

it then moves unto the "Running Configuration Assistant..." and hangs their

What can I do....?

Thanks

Liam

lodonovan1 at 2007-7-6 22:27:03 >