Nekonomicon - WindowsXP and Solaris Dual Boot: Any issues?

VintageApollo735user
Who joined Dec. 17, 2006, 10:15 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 7, 2007, 11:56 a.m...

I need to save some space since someone gave me a nice year old Dell thats a lot faster than my current WinXP and Solaris PC's combined. Is there any issues anyone ran across trying to get both OSes to get along on the same system?

Macintosh IIfx running A/UX 3, 160mb hd, 8 mb ram, Radius Truecolor 24 Graphics Accelerator
Macintosh SE/30 running A/UX 3
Apple iMac DV+ 450mhz, 256mb ram, Panther
Compaq Presario 1210 Laptop dual-Booting choice of Win 98 or Damn Small Linux
Compaq Evo T20 former Thin Client running Damn Small Linux
Sun Ultra 5 ,270mhz , 256mb ram, Solaris 9
Acer Aspire 5734z, 2.3ghz Pentium 4500 dual core, 3gb Ram, Dual booting Windows 7 or Zorin Linux
HP Laptop, 1.1 ghz Duron cpu, 384mb ram, Puppy Linux
Power Mac G4, 450mhz, 768mb ram, OS 10.4.11

zizban
Moderator
From Cheshire, MA
Who joined Dec. 21, 2003, 5:59 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 7, 2007, 4:18 p.m...

Pretty standard. Solaris uses grub so it sound't be hard to set up.

regan_russell
From Sydney, Australia
Who joined July 18, 2006, 9:32 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 7, 2007, 4:26 p.m...

Yup, Windows does not play nice with other O/Ses and boot blocks, primary/secondary drives, etc.. install Windows first and then install Solaris second.

Regan

J5600, 2 x SUN, 2 x Mac, 3 x Alpha, 2 x RS/6000

ItsMeOnly
From Warszawa, Poland
Who joined Aug. 18, 2006, 12:56 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 7, 2007, 4:30 p.m...

regan_russell wrote: Yup, Windows does not play nice with other O/Ses and boot blocks, primary/secondary drives, etc.. install Windows first and then install Solaris second.

Regan

Or before installing windows, back up your boot sector to a floppy, boot from it after, and add entry for windoze to write back to HDD.

VintageApollo735user
Who joined Dec. 17, 2006, 10:15 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 7, 2007, 11:08 p.m...

I think I'll use a bios boot priority trick and install a separate hd for Solaris. Also, how does the x11 system do with an Intel Expreme 2?

Macintosh IIfx running A/UX 3, 160mb hd, 8 mb ram, Radius Truecolor 24 Graphics Accelerator
Macintosh SE/30 running A/UX 3
Apple iMac DV+ 450mhz, 256mb ram, Panther
Compaq Presario 1210 Laptop dual-Booting choice of Win 98 or Damn Small Linux
Compaq Evo T20 former Thin Client running Damn Small Linux
Sun Ultra 5 ,270mhz , 256mb ram, Solaris 9
Acer Aspire 5734z, 2.3ghz Pentium 4500 dual core, 3gb Ram, Dual booting Windows 7 or Zorin Linux
HP Laptop, 1.1 ghz Duron cpu, 384mb ram, Puppy Linux
Power Mac G4, 450mhz, 768mb ram, OS 10.4.11

MooglyGuy
From Orlando, Florida
Who joined Feb. 5, 2005, 6:40 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 9, 2007, 7:56 a.m...

VintageApollo735user wrote: I think I'll use a bios boot priority trick and install a separate hd for Solaris. Also, how does the x11 system do with an Intel Expreme 2?

Well, you'll have crap 3D performance, so you'll want to turn off any Vista Aero-like features of the given desktop environment you use, but it should be fine for everyday usage.

alross
From Utah
Who joined March 1, 2007, 7:44 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 16, 2007, 7:35 p.m...

I've just started playing with an install on a WinXp (hda1), Opensuse 10.2 (Hdb1) system. I could'nt make the fdisk parameters see the hdb disk...any ideas..or am I simply doing it wrong (spoiled by Yast)

letchhausen
Who joined May 13, 2007, 1:14 a.m.

Wrote the following at May 13, 2007, 1:49 a.m...

VintageApollo735user wrote: I think I'll use a bios boot priority trick and install a separate hd for Solaris.

I do this now and have found it the fine. I'm using this method on an Ultra 20 running Solaris 10 and XP64. The only issue I have is needing to reboot the cablemodem after I switch from one drive to the other.

VintageApollo735user
Who joined Dec. 17, 2006, 10:15 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 22, 2007, 10:26 p.m...

Sorry for the thread Necromancy, but I'm getting an Averatec Laptop with a possible bad hd ( no problem since i have a 30 gig laptop hd In my parts stash) for free. Has anyone here installed Solaris on this brand yet? What possible issues could I bump into?

Macintosh IIfx running A/UX 3, 160mb hd, 8 mb ram, Radius Truecolor 24 Graphics Accelerator
Macintosh SE/30 running A/UX 3
Apple iMac DV+ 450mhz, 256mb ram, Panther
Compaq Presario 1210 Laptop dual-Booting choice of Win 98 or Damn Small Linux
Compaq Evo T20 former Thin Client running Damn Small Linux
Sun Ultra 5 ,270mhz , 256mb ram, Solaris 9
Acer Aspire 5734z, 2.3ghz Pentium 4500 dual core, 3gb Ram, Dual booting Windows 7 or Zorin Linux
HP Laptop, 1.1 ghz Duron cpu, 384mb ram, Puppy Linux
Power Mac G4, 450mhz, 768mb ram, OS 10.4.11