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=====