On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:06 PM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Johan Hartzenberg writes: > > I am guessing the answer is YMMV depending on the differences in versions > > of, for example Firefox, Gnome, Thunderbird, etc, and based on how well > > these cope with settings that was changed by another potentially newer > > version of itself. > > The answers to your questions are basically all "no." The new > installer wants a primary partition or a whole disk. > > However, there are helpful blogs from folks who've made the > transition. Poor Ed seems to have a broken 'shift' key, but he gives > great details here: > > http://blogs.sun.com/edp/entry/moving_from_nevada_and_live > > Hi James. Thank you for the response. I am going to try it the other way around then - Install machine with OpenSolaris, then install NV into the pool as an alternate boot environment. I have a spare hard drive which I can use as a sandpit environment. Now I just need that other little thing called "time" to experiment. -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Afrikaanse Stap Website: http://www.bloukous.co.za My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com ICQ = 193944626, YahooIM = johan_hartzenberg, GoogleTalk = [EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM = JohanHartzenberg
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