Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot

2012-12-22 Thread Ian Collins
Reginald Beardsley wrote: FWIW I have a rack I built that holds 24 disk caddies. It's getting obsolete as they are all IDE drives, but it's really nice to be able to grab an old disk, stick it in the machine, load something and play around knowing w/ absolute certainty that I can't do any dam

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot

2012-12-22 Thread Reginald Beardsley
FWIW I have a rack I built that holds 24 disk caddies. It's getting obsolete as they are all IDE drives, but it's really nice to be able to grab an old disk, stick it in the machine, load something and play around knowing w/ absolute certainty that I can't do any damage. Part of my original mo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot

2012-12-22 Thread Marc Williams
On 12/22/12 11:52 AM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: My advice is don't. Do one of the following: Use a USB disk and use the BIOS to boot from that. You'll need to always plug the disk into the same USB port, but otherwise it's quite painless. I do this w/ my Solaris laptop when I want to boot L

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot

2012-12-22 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-12-22 23:29, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Run various operating systems in virtual machines. It would appear from the other post that the hostility of the various installers is not as extreme as it was. Detailed instructions on the wiki woul be really nice. To an extent. OI GRUB doesn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot

2012-12-22 Thread Reginald Beardsley
Run various operating systems in virtual machines. It would appear from the other post that the hostility of the various installers is not as extreme as it was. Detailed instructions on the wiki woul be really nice. --- On Sat, 12/22/12, mattias wrote: > From: mattias > Subject: Re: [OpenI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Thommy M. Malmström [mailto:thommy.m.malmst...@gmail.com] > > I might have a drained battery as the time was reset, I noticed. I'll get a > new one. The MB is a GIGABYTE K8N ProSli and I haven't done more than > disconnecting > the disks during new install of b147 (just to make sure I didn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Doug Hughes [mailto:d...@will.to] > > That isn't necessarily a driver. What model hba do you have? If it is among > many versions of megaraid or similar, you won't see any disks until you > create logical units from the raid card bios interface. OOohhh... Be *very* careful though. It i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot

2012-12-22 Thread mattias
what use virtualbox for? Reginald Beardsley skrev 2012-12-22 20:52: My advice is don't. Do one of the following: Use a USB disk and use the BIOS to boot from that. You'll need to always plug the disk into the same USB port, but otherwise it's quite painless. I do this w/ my Solaris laptop w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot

2012-12-22 Thread Marcel Telka
It is. I have OpenIndiana, CentOS, Fedora and Windows 7 on my laptop. Just create a separate partition for evety operating system, install the OS into the partition and make sure the bootloader is installed into partition's boot record (not MBR). Then you'll have its own bootloader for every OS. Y

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot

2012-12-22 Thread Reginald Beardsley
My advice is don't. Do one of the following: Use a USB disk and use the BIOS to boot from that. You'll need to always plug the disk into the same USB port, but otherwise it's quite painless. I do this w/ my Solaris laptop when I want to boot Linux. Use removable drive caddies and a socket.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot

2012-12-22 Thread mattias
are it possible to dualbot oi and windows? if so what should i select when partioning ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss