29 Jun
2006
29 Jun
'06
6:55 p.m.
jim stephens wrote:
Don Y wrote:
Ah, I forgot that the U10 is IDE. <shrug>
I just inherited a U10 (400+?). I was planning
on installing 8.
Is it wiser to move to something else? (I need 8 for Jaluna
cross-development but can keep that on my U1 if need be)
Solaris 8 is a bit weird about installing IDE drives with the bigdisk
capacity command. I had to do some finagleing with the format process to
get anything
bigger than 8gb to be created.
Ouch! I have an 18G in the U1 currently and don't recall any problems
getting it set up. Though I don't think any partition is larger than
8G on that machine.
I am running 9 with a 120gb (130 is the magic spot
where the disk size
commands break).
Ah, that won't be a problem for me. I dont like putting big drives
in any single machine. Level 0 backups just take too damn long
(even on a DLT). And, since I only *work* on a little stuff at
a time, I only need a few GB of sandbox to play in.
My friend who is running 10 reported at the time he
loaded it on a 5 (same
processor and motherboard as the 5) that it required no intervention
in the formatting, it just worked.
I plan to download and try to run 10 with the development stuff, sometime
this summer.
Solaris is much better than most OS's about multi booting. you can stop
the boot process and specify a different root partition and have both 8
and 10 on the same drive, or on separate drives. The firmware specifies
the target that gets booted, and you can change the eeprom under solaris
to specify which one to boot, then reboot to switch from one to the
other with a convenient script on both.
Yeah, I've taken the approach of just setting up different machines
to do different things. Easier for me to keep track of. And, easier
for me to repurpose machines as my needs change (which might want
to move hardware around etc)
Thanks!