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Solaris 8 install
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linux?
you have a problem, solaris sectors are the same fdisk code as Linux swap partitions ... but it's probably able if you're careful.
back up everything if you can.
install solaris on the second disk ...
it will want to install a boot loader ...
finish installing ...
may have to reinstall windows, may have to reinstall linux (carefully), everything works (hopefully)
you don't need the lilo boot loader now, the down side is that solaris is always the default os to boot, and there isn't anything you can do to change the startup menu configuration.
tell us if it works
you have a problem, solaris sectors are the same fdisk code as Linux swap partitions ... but it's probably able if you're careful.
back up everything if you can.
install solaris on the second disk ...
it will want to install a boot loader ...
finish installing ...
may have to reinstall windows, may have to reinstall linux (carefully), everything works (hopefully)
you don't need the lilo boot loader now, the down side is that solaris is always the default os to boot, and there isn't anything you can do to change the startup menu configuration.
tell us if it works
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thanks, jad,
it's "successfully" installed on the
2nd drive by chosing both boot and fdisk on it,
withou touching the 1st one.
BIOS has not been modified to default solaris boot,
but a device configuration/Boot
floppy is used to boot saloris.
Now the problem:
the computer halts after CDE starts.
any idea? hardware compatibility problem?
i am using ibm aptiva 580.
it's "successfully" installed on the
2nd drive by chosing both boot and fdisk on it,
withou touching the 1st one.
BIOS has not been modified to default solaris boot,
but a device configuration/Boot
floppy is used to boot saloris.
Now the problem:
the computer halts after CDE starts.
any idea? hardware compatibility problem?
i am using ibm aptiva 580.
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Jad,thanks for your followup. I got around the problem by replacing the notorious RockWell video card. Now I am trying to setup Apache web server. Do you know where I can find this kind of howtos? It seems that the Apache package has be installed with the Solaris 8 OS, because Apache Web Server and Apache Utility and shared objects are already in the product registry. But I do not know where I should start from, configuration or startup?
oki ... the apache is started from /etc/init.d/apache ... if it is installed ...
you need to make an apache configuration file though before it will start, i think it's in /var/apache somewhere.
copying the sample configuration worked for me, you can change it to your hearts delight later.
Jon
you need to make an apache configuration file though before it will start, i think it's in /var/apache somewhere.
copying the sample configuration worked for me, you can change it to your hearts delight later.
Jon
has plenty of setup docs for the configs. But as apache config seems to be essentially the same on all platforms, there are many many others out there.
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