Re: Manually creating a Debian boot sector Or a bootable Debian disk in Solaris for x86

2011-03-16 Thread A E [Gmail]
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Joseph Lenox wrote: > I've done some work with Solaris 10, trying to get rid of it for most of my > workstations. I was unaware there was even a solaris 8 x86 install (I'd > change the Solaris install to 10 as a matter of principle -- ZFS is that > good). > > Use t

Re: Manually creating a Debian boot sector Or a bootable Debian disk in Solaris for x86

2011-03-15 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 03/14/2011 04:00 PM, A E [Gmail] wrote: Hello All, So, the question is, Does anyone know how to partition the 2nd HDD while in Solaris, install the Debian boot files and bare-bone kernel from boot.img.gz archive, initrd and vmlinuz on it so that when selected to boot from it, it boot in