I'm getting a Sun W1100z in here any day now. I'm planning on putting SuSE64 9.1, Sun Linux, and XP on it. I'm using an Intel based machine now with 9.1 32bit. To make life easy on me (which usually means it's difficult later) I'm thinking of dd'ing my current drive to the new Sun then reinstalling the 64bit. I'm doing this so I don't have to spend hours installing everything over again (non-SuSE programs). So, what type of grief is this going to cause me? Will it work? Am I on crack for even thinking of doing this? Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 1.805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
On Thu August 12 2004 12:11 pm, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I'm getting a Sun W1100z in here any day now. I'm planning on putting SuSE64 9.1, Sun Linux, and XP on it. I'm using an Intel based machine now with 9.1 32bit. To make life easy on me (which usually means it's difficult later) I'm thinking of dd'ing my current drive to the new Sun then reinstalling the 64bit. I'm doing this so I don't have to spend hours installing everything over again (non-SuSE programs).
So, what type of grief is this going to cause me? Will it work? Am I on crack for even thinking of doing this?
Tom
I'd recommend drop shipping it to me immediately so that I could help you stay on task selling. I'll produce a nice hard copy report and send it (and the system) back to you with Solaris and SUSE 9.1 Pro loaded. Send me a legitimate copy of XP and I'll get that on there for you also. What features would you like enabled and what testing would you like done? When we have these steps done then I'll be able to answer your questions much better. I'd advocate loading everything from scratch the first time. Leave room for a copy of your current system as a backup. Leave your current system as your production system and stay in business. Copy only the things you really need (data, configs, etc) over. Since you would be putting 2 OS's (SUSE 9.1 Pro and Win XP) on there that aren't on Sun's current supported OS list (Solaris 9 4/04 OS (x86 Platform Edition), Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v3 - x86, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v3 - AMD64) you may run into driver issues that could keep you out of production. Of course that would take all the fun out of it... Stan
Tom Nielsen wrote:
I'm getting a Sun W1100z in here any day now. I'm planning on putting SuSE64 9.1, Sun Linux, and XP on it. I'm using an Intel based machine now with 9.1 32bit. To make life easy on me (which usually means it's difficult later) I'm thinking of dd'ing my current drive to the new Sun then reinstalling the 64bit. I'm doing this so I don't have to spend hours installing everything over again (non-SuSE programs).
So, what type of grief is this going to cause me? Will it work? Am I on crack for even thinking of doing this?
Tom
I don't know if Solaris has improved since 8 in that regard. A colleague tried installing Solaris 8 on his latop with NT and he ended up not being able to boot NT. He managed to dump his NT stuff to a server, then did a rebuild. Solaris didn't (doesn't?) like anything else on the disk. Back at Solaris 7 I had it installed on a box where eventually the motherboard was instantly damaging DIMM's, so I got a new mobo and memory, but using the same PCI/ISA cards. Solaris booted from disk, then complained it couldn't boot from the network, removed the network card and it then said it didn't know where to boot from. Even sysunconfig or reformatting the drive didn't help, it seemed it just couldn't cope with the new motherboard, so I rebuilt Linux on it, these days it's running Mandrake 10.0. I don't know if Sun has done anything that imaginitive in 9 or 10 to allow Solaris and other OS's to coexist. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
On Friday 13 August 2004 1:25 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
I don't know if Sun has done anything that imaginitive in 9 or 10 to allow Solaris and other OS's to coexist. Regards Sid.
I guess they did. My friend at Sun is running on his laptop.. Solaris 9, XP, Red Hat, and will be installing SuSE shortly. -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 1.805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
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