Installing Solaris 10 on a Vista desktop

pharaoh46

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Mar 26, 2009, 12:18:17 PM3/26/09

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Hi,

I'm looking to create a dual-boot Solaris 10/Vista PC. I have a PC
with Vista and I've created an unformatted partition w/30 gb space.
Question: Can I use a tool like Partition Manager to format the
partition, then install Solaris 10 on it? If so, do I need to modify a
boot record file in anyway?

Or is it easier to just replace Vista with XP and THEN install Solaris
10? Thanks. --JP

Nomen Publicus

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Mar 26, 2009, 12:52:42 PM3/26/09

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pharaoh46 <phar...@optonline.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to create a dual-boot Solaris 10/Vista PC. I have a PC
> with Vista and I've created an unformatted partition w/30 gb space.
> Question: Can I use a tool like Partition Manager to format the
> partition, then install Solaris 10 on it? If so, do I need to modify a
> boot record file in anyway?

Vista does not make it easy to dual boot. This may help
http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/vista_and_solaris_express_dual

>
> Or is it easier to just replace Vista with XP and THEN install Solaris
> 10? Thanks. --JP

It would be much simpler to install VirtualBox onto Vista and then install
Sol10 as a VM.
http://www.virtualbox.org/

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solx

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Mar 26, 2009, 2:24:13 PM3/26/09

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Nomen Publicus wrote:
> pharaoh46 <phar...@optonline.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking to create a dual-boot Solaris 10/Vista PC. I have a PC
>> with Vista and I've created an unformatted partition w/30 gb space.
>> Question: Can I use a tool like Partition Manager to format the
>> partition, then install Solaris 10 on it? If so, do I need to modify a
>> boot record file in anyway?
>
> Vista does not make it easy to dual boot. This may help
> http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/vista_and_solaris_express_dual
>
>> Or is it easier to just replace Vista with XP and THEN install Solaris
>> 10? Thanks. --JP
>
> It would be much simpler to install VirtualBox onto Vista and then install
> Sol10 as a VM.
> http://www.virtualbox.org/
>

Or install Solaris and have Vista as a VirtualBox client.

AZ Nomad

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Mar 26, 2009, 2:39:11 PM3/26/09

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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:52:42 -0000, Nomen Publicus <zza...@buffy.sighup.org.uk> wrote:
>pharaoh46 <phar...@optonline.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking to create a dual-boot Solaris 10/Vista PC. I have a PC
>> with Vista and I've created an unformatted partition w/30 gb space.
>> Question: Can I use a tool like Partition Manager to format the
>> partition, then install Solaris 10 on it? If so, do I need to modify a
>> boot record file in anyway?

>Vista does not make it easy to dual boot. This may help
>http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/vista_and_solaris_express_dual

>>
>> Or is it easier to just replace Vista with XP and THEN install Solaris
>> 10? Thanks. --JP

>It would be much simpler to install VirtualBox onto Vista and then install
>Sol10 as a VM.
>http://www.virtualbox.org/

The problem with that is that the guest operating will stop every time
vista is stuck in one of it's many semaphore wait states. At work I
use ubuntu in a vmware VM on windows XP and it sucks. Every time
windows hangs ( which is very often, from things as insignifigant
as an email refresh ), ubuntu hangs too.

It's better to put windows in the VM instead. I do that @ home and it
works a lot better. When windows hangs itself, it doesn't affect
anything else.

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Ian Collins

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Mar 27, 2009, 3:55:05 AM3/27/09

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Or install OpenSolaris and virtualise have both vista and Solaris with XvM.

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Thommy M.

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Mar 30, 2009, 2:46:17 PM3/30/09

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Must remember to try that out some day. Is it in 2008.11 or?

Ian Collins

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Mar 31, 2009, 5:46:05 AM3/31/09

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Thommy M. wrote:
> Ian Collins wrote:

>> Or install OpenSolaris and virtualise have both vista and Solaris with XvM.
>
> Must remember to try that out some day. Is it in 2008.11 or?

Probably, I'm running SXCE build 110 on my xVM box.

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Canuck57

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May 16, 2009, 1:45:52 PM5/16/09

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"Nomen Publicus" <zza...@buffy.sighup.org.uk> wrote in message
news:qfos96-...@buffy.sighup.org.uk...

> pharaoh46 <phar...@optonline.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking to create a dual-boot Solaris 10/Vista PC. I have a PC
>> with Vista and I've created an unformatted partition w/30 gb space.
>> Question: Can I use a tool like Partition Manager to format the
>> partition, then install Solaris 10 on it? If so, do I need to modify a
>> boot record file in anyway?
>
> Vista does not make it easy to dual boot. This may help
> http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/vista_and_solaris_express_dual
>
>>
>> Or is it easier to just replace Vista with XP and THEN install Solaris
>> 10? Thanks. --JP
>
> It would be much simpler to install VirtualBox onto Vista and then install
> Sol10 as a VM.
> http://www.virtualbox.org/

Good advice. The only redeeming value for Vista is that VirtualBox seems to
run quite nicely in Vista. In fact, copy in of files into a Solaris VM goes
faster than copy in of files to Vista native!

Given Solaris does not have ICHR9 drivers that are worth a crap, I now run
Solaris in VMs, either VMWare or VirtualBox. Plus, it lets me run a variety
of Linux and OpenBSD. Inside the VM, Solaris is quite nice.

Dick Hoogendijk

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May 17, 2009, 8:05:13 AM5/17/09

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quoting Canuck57 (Sat, 16 May 2009 11:45:52 -0600):
> Given Solaris does not have ICHR9 drivers that are worth a crap, I now
> run Solaris in VMs, either VMWare or VirtualBox. Plus, it lets me run
> a variety of Linux and OpenBSD. Inside the VM, Solaris is quite nice.

True, but why run solaris 10 in a vm in stead of a native OpenSolaris
version (tha btw does have good ICHR9 drivers).
the dual-booting problem in Vista is easely overcome with some kin of
util I know to exist. The name has been "forgotten".

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