2nd Solaris 8 partition

I would like to use a 2nd partition on my disk for another Solaris patition. All the documentation seems to assume that there will be only one Solaris patition on a single disk with maybe another partition being used for windows or some other os. That's what I have now but I have acquired second (they are removable) disk for windows and now want to use the full disk for Solaris without a reload.
Can I do this? How would I do this?

I haven't seen any Partition Manager for Solaris x86, specially for Solaris 10 which has changed its partition number because it used to be equal to Linux Swap File, I've tryied Partition Manager, Partition Magic and none seems to works, if somebody knows about a partition manager that detects Solaris partition let us know

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You saved my obtuse butt again
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Under SL, a 2nd disk partition disappears; re-appears if shutdown and start

Background: MacBook Pro, two+ years old. On day one I partitioned the 100GB drive into three sections for MAC OS, DATA and WINDOWS. Never installed Windows.
Just installed SL upgrade. Had some problems; MAC OS space was insufficient. It took SL a while to decide the WINDOWS partition was the wrong format. (I had forgotten the FAT formatting from two years ago.) SL install went into a loop more than once. Finally had to re-install the original MAC OS and then installed SL, which now seems to be working fine. (This is the short version of four+ hours to install SL.)
But now the DATA partition disappears at random times. It will be displayed on the desktop at startup and then, a while later, no longer be displayed. Disk Utility will show it as greyed out but Disk Utility Verify will report it's fine. If I shutdown and restart, it re-appears on the desktop.
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Adding 2nd Windows Partition

Have BC installed on my MacBook Pro, with Windows Vista.
Rather than use CampTune (I'm scared) or reinstall Vista, I was hoping I could add a new NTFS partition out of the existing space I have dedicated to my OSX installation.
This space would be formatted with NTFS. Once created, I could then assign the space a drive letter in Vista and be able to use it for file storage.
Is this possible to do using tools in OSX? In Vista, the remaining space is recognized in Disk Management, but it is totally inaccessible, so I know I cannot add the partition in Windows.

You are scared to use CampTune to resize; you realize whatever rules there are, which would be the same as for any triple boot setup.
You can shrink Vista (though you really should leave more than enough headroom to do so).
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Hello all,
How can we allocate additional hard disk space to a partition (which has been existing) without deleting it.
eg:- I have 6.00GBs space allocated for my "/" directory. I want to increase the size by 10.00GBs. How can I do it?. Please help me out.
Regards,
SAJAN

Essentially, you can't.
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Its unfortunate that the default partition sizes are ludicrous and have been for a long time.
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It is possible to mirror onto a larger disk, then expand the partition.
But you have to know what your doing.
You could create a separate partition for something like /opt or /var, copy stuff across then mount it back in.
But doing it for /var is tricky.

Can Solaris 8 be installed on 2nd HD?

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mode) always points to my Master IDE Drive to make fdisk Solaris partition. Is anyone installed Solaris 8 to the other drive?

This is not simple, I think. I tried it a few times without success. Then I tried this (my system has 2 IDE HDs): I unconnected my master HD and connected my slave HD as master. Then I installed Solaris. After this I connected the HDs like before. Then I booted with the Solaris boot diskette. After configuring devices you can choose "boot tasks". After changing the default boot path it was possible to boot from the 2nd HD. Unfortunately you can only boot with the diskette. I tried to use LiLo Bootmanager to boot from the solaris boot partition on the 2nd HD but without success. Perhaps it is possible to copy this partition to master HD and change boot options permanently but I didn't try this.
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WinXP dual boot Solaris on 2nd hard drive problem...

Hi there ppl,
run into a bit of a prob with dual booting winxp and solaris. I have WinXP on 1st hard drive and Solaris on 2nd hard drive 2 (Solaris - partition 1 with slice 0 x86 active, DOS - partition 2 for installing linux later, DOS - partition 3 for fat32 file storage later).
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timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
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I am having a same issue....
1.....1st 80 GB hard disk, I had window XP installed. (NTFS format)
2....add 200 GB, 2nd hard drive, make 3 partitions, on first 50GB partition I have install Solaris 10.....Having some issue with network config, but its resolve, thank this forum.....
Now, everytime when ever I need to go to Solarid, I have to go in BIOS screen and switch HD, I mean if I want to boot to solaris, I have to make a 2nd (200GB) hd primary..Soaris work fine, but from the GRUB menu, if I select window, its get hung up...
now if I want to boot to window, again I have to go to BIOS and need to switch around hdd.... make 1st (80GB) hdd primary, windows work fine....
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1....Can some one help me, provide me the step-by-step information that how can i set up dual boot, so I can use my 2nd drive (200GB) as a primary and from the GRUB, I select windows and its boot to windows... if its otherway around,,,its still ok....I don't want my kids mess up BIOS....
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Adding Partition in Solaris 10 ...

Hi,
I have one question, regarding Solaris 10. I was taken 20 GB HDD for Solaris then I was installed it. Now I have 10 Gb free space in my HDD. I want to add it with Solaris partition. Please let me know , How can I add this?
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Partha

Hi,
I have one question, regarding Solaris 10. I was
taken 20 GB HDD for Solaris then I was installed
it. Now I have 10 Gb free space in my HDD. I want to
add it with Solaris partition. Please let me know ,
How can I add this?You've left out a few details. Is this Solaris x86? Do you mean your Solaris partition is 20G, or that one slice (visible in format) is 20G?
You might be able to enlarge the partition to get the remaining space, but I don't know how you'd get the VTOC label inside to see the extra space.
You can only have one Solaris partition on the disk, so adding a second won't help.
Darren
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Thanks
Partha

Solaris in Logical Partition and Internet Configuration

Hi !
I'm really passionate about this unix-solaris thing.
But these nudges are pulling me back from installing it actually in my hard drive.
And also there is the Internet configuration problem.
Problem:1
I have 2 IDE HDD.
Primary HDD: 80 GB
VolumeName-Type-Size
SystemBoot-Primary/Active/NTFS-100 MB
Extended Partition:
VISTA-Logical/NTFS-20 GB
2008-Logical/NTFS-10 GB
Data-Logical/NTFS-25 GB
Music-Logical/NTFS-9.42 GB
Solaris-Logical/BLANK-10GB .....Blank = No FS. Used Acronis DD10 for it.
Slave HDD: 40 GB
Extended Partition:
XP-Logical/NTFS-10GB
Fedora9-Logical/ext3-10GB
SWAP-Logical/SWAP-2GB
OpenSUSE103-Logical/ext3-15.25 GB
When I came to HDD configuration stage of installation,
I selected the pre-selected c0d0(bootdisk) ---Primary HDD/80GB.
But when I proceeded further it showed me:
Warning � The initial fdisk information found on the disk
c0d0 was invalid. Defaulting the entire disk to a Solaris partition.
So I aborted the installation.
I tried one more time, by changing the Solaris Blank logical drive to a primary partition.
But it didn't work.
Now I think Solaris 10 cannot be installed in a logical drive or more broadly speaking(assuming) it cannot be installed in HDD having logical drives,it should be all primary partitions.
Please help me on this.
I'm sick of installing it in VMWare.
Problem: 2
How am I supposed to configure my network connection.
I connect to my ISP using WAN Miniport(PPPOE).
It allots me dynamic IP(v4).
I read somewhere DNS should f.root-servers.net and in a magazine, a.solaris.net
I never came across such a thing in even in linux.
Problem: 3
If there is not so �feasible� solution to problem 1, VMWare Workstation comes into play.
And here too, I need help for configuration of network connection.
These are the values that I got when I installed Windows XP in the VMWare.
LAC -Local Area Connection
LAC � Limited or no connectivity
IP � 169.254.127.90
Subnet -255.255.0.0
Adapter #2 � Bridged
LAC -2
IP -192.168.21.132
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway -192.168.21.2
DHCP Srv 192.168.21.254
DNS/WINS Srv 192.168.21.2
Adapter#1 � NAT
LAC � 3
IP 192.168.209.135
Subnet 255.255.255.0
DHCP Srv 192.168.209.254
DNS � 192.168.209.1
Adapter #3 � Host Only
Thanks In Advance !

Natty wrote:
Now I think Solaris 10 cannot be installed in a logical drive or more broadly speaking(assuming) it cannot be installed in HDD having logical drives,it should be all primary partitions.This is correct. You need a primary partition (or space for one) for Solaris to install on the drive.
Problem: 3
If there is not so feasible solution to problem 1, VMWare Workstation comes into play.
And here too, I need help for configuration of network connection.
These are the values that I got when I installed Windows XP in the VMWare.
LAC -Local Area Connection
LAC  Limited or no connectivity
IP  169.254.127.90
Subnet -255.255.0.0
Adapter #2  BridgedThat's an autoconfig IP. It suggests that it tried to do DHCP on the interface and failed. Perhaps you need to configure a hard address.
LAC -2
IP -192.168.21.132
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway -192.168.21.2
DHCP Srv 192.168.21.254
DNS/WINS Srv 192.168.21.2
Adapter#1  NATThat's the NAT address. Any problems using it? That's the normal way I use my Solaris VM hosts.
LAC  3
IP 192.168.209.135
Subnet 255.255.255.0
DHCP Srv 192.168.209.254
DNS  192.168.209.1
Adapter #3  Host OnlyAnd that's the host-only adapter. That won't be useful for reaching resources off the VM host.
Darren

Expanding root partition in Solaris 10 VirtualBox virtual machine

I am running a Solaris 10 u8 x86 64-bit guest as a VirtualBox VM on a WinXP x64 host. I was running out of space in the guest VM, so I used CloneVDI (http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22422) to clone and expand the VM from 20GB to 30GB. Now I need to expand the / partition in the VM filesystem so that it sees the whole 30GB now available. What is the best way to do this within the Sol10 guest? Is there a way to simply add a new "extent" to the existing filesystem?
Thank you in advance...

sparcmaster wrote:
The virtual disk is now expandable to 40GB.Do you mean you've already expanded it?
prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c0d0s0* /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 partition map
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 63 sectors/track
* 255 tracks/cylinder
* 16065 sectors/cylinder
* 2717 cylinders
* 2715 accessible cylinders*And here's the problem. The OS didn't care. This VTOC shows only ~20GB
16065 x 2717 / 2 / 1024 / 1024 => 20.81
The only way to change this is to blow it away and recreate it and hope your data survives. If you do it right it should, but you need to be prepared for it to not work.
You'd boot from alternate media (CD/DVD/network), then use 'fdisk' on the root drive. It'll have a 20GB Solaris partition on it. Destroy it and create a new one that is full size (40G).
Now run 'prtvtoc' on the drive again. If the number of sectors per cylinder is the same (just the number of cylinders increased), then you should be okay and able to continue. If the size of a cylinder changed, then your data will probably not be accessible.
Now take your original 'prtvtoc' output file and remove the line with slice 2 in it
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 6345675 37270800 43616474 /
1 3 01 48195 6297480 6345674
2 5 00 0 43616475 43616474 <=== Remove this line
8 1 01 0 16065 16064
9 9 01 16065 32130 48194Use 'fmthard' to reapply the slices.
# fmthard -s <vtocfile> /dev/rdsk/c0d0s2Check the disk and all the slices should be back.
Verify root filesystem is still present and okay
# fsck -n /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0If all that is done, then you're really close. Since the root slice is at the end of the disk, increasing the size is simple. Just go into 'format -> partition' and edit slice 0. Keep the start cylinder the same, but change the number of cylinders to use the rest of the disk. When done type 'label' and exit format. If done correctly you can now run 'growfs /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0' to increase the size. Reboot and everything should come up.
The worst part is that when you increase the Solaris partition, I don't believe there's a guarantee that the cylinder size won't change. When I've attempted this, I haven't had any problems, but I've always been ready if it didn't work. When it works, it does save time.
Good luck!
Darren

Partitioning a disk in Solaris 10

Hi,
I am new with Solaris 10, and I want to create a partition on the disk, which it has already very important data that is being backuped. I have read the documentation from sun, and it seems that the best way is with the command format and then partition.
But I have seen that is possible to do it in the System Management Console .
What do you recommend me?
And after the partition, I have to mount the file systems, again, do I?
I would appreciate all the help.
Best regards,
Juan

I don't think you can create a Solaris partition with the format command from either DOS or Windows.
Here is how you create a Solaris partition, as far as I know anyway:
1. Use Ranish PM to create Solaris partition before hand so that the installation won't create x86boot.
2. Create some free space available, and then run the installation. The process will let you create the Solaris partition along with x86boot.
3. If you don't create some free space before hand, you will have to install Solaris on other existing partition, which means whatever current operating system of yours will be erased.
-van.

Solaris 10: Mounting a extended partition

Hi, I have Solaris 10 installed in a x86 machine.
I have one hard disk with 3 primary partitions (ntfs, ufs, fat32). I have 1 extended partiton that containts 2 partitions (ext3 and fat32).
Can i mount my extended partitions in Solaris?
I mount my first fat32 (hda2 in linux) partition with:
"mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d0p2 /mnt/ruben"
In wich way can i mount my second fat32 partition?
"mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d?s?p? /mnt/david"
Can i mount my linux partition?
Finally, in wich way can i mount my Solaris partition in linux?
I try "mount -t ufs /dev/hda3 /mnt/solaris/
" but it doesn't work.
Saludos.
PD: Sorry for my sucks english :)

Solaris 10 won't reconize your extended partitions, its limited in primary partitions only at this time. This may change ofcourse, it wouldn't surprise me if you see support appear somewhere in either Solaris Express or a later Open Solaris release.
Mounting your linux partition is therefor only possible if its located on an extended partition. As to Linux itself; it heavily depends on the filesystem. I think to have read somewhere that you can add ext2 support in Solaris, but I don't think that'll work for filesystems like reiser, xfs or ext3. (although the latter might be accessible as ext2).
Finally, a little offtopic (but not too much)... Yes, Linux supports mounting Solaris x86 slices, but its very likely that you'll need to recompile your kernel. You'll need to add UFS filesystem support as well as support for the Solaris/x86 partition table.
I suggest checking out a few howto's on www.tldp.org on instructions how to compile your kernel.

Does the Solaris 10 installer Fdisk preserve 'unknown' partitions?

Hi there,
I am trying to install Solaris 10 - I have a CD to boot from, but can't tell exactly which release it is - sometime in 2008 I think...
In any case, I am attempting install on my LG laptop along-side an XP installation.
I've been searching for hours and nowhere can I find an answer to the simple question above.
I just want to be sure I am not going to kill my XP install by clobbering it with fdisk.
The installer screen I am talking about looks just like the one you find here:
http://www.blastwave.org/docs/step-059.html
My execution of the installer reveals 2 existing partitions (my XP partition and a little one - size 205Mb which I think contains some laptoppy stuff). Both are labelled 'unknown'.
I left about 30Gb free when I installed XP so I could setup a dual boot with Solaris. The third box in the fdisk installer screen is this empty partition, and is conveniently labelled with 'Solaris' by the installer. The last (4th) partition is labelled as 'unused' and has 0 bytes allocated. I intend to steal a few Mb from the 'Solaris' partition and create a FAT32 partition here...as this seems to be the recommended approach...
Anyhow, if anyone out there can help me out I'd be really appreciative - I think the answer is probably yes, it will preserve them, but I'd like to be certain as I don't want to have to reinstall XP.
Thx in advance.

Hi Paul,
thanks for your response. Windows install disk gives partitioning options - don't think it comes with a fdisk util on its own (as an OS that is) though. I had already left part of the disk unpartitioned when I used the fdisk for the windows install, so I could install Solaris...
In the end I decided to be brave and click next - the answer is that Yes it does preserve them - at least it did in my case. I now have a dual boot system. You can have the points for taking the time to bother with my silly question.
:-D
Have a few other issues to resolve with it now - but at least it's up and running, and I managed to get network connectivity - just not thru my wireless yet - hopefully I'll be able to.
Much fun for me to have - cheers!

Is it possible to resize Solaris (8) partition and move it?

Hi,
I have a multiboot machine (w2k, RH9, Solaris8), on which solaris partition has some extra space. I need to resize Solaris (shrink it) and also move its location on the disk so that I can use the extra space by expanding the linux root partition.
Is this possible without a solaris reinstall? I don't have the CD's and reinstalling is not an option.
Can this be done using some of the partition tool and disk editors?
Any pointers will be appriciated!

I haven't seen any Partition Manager for Solaris x86, specially for Solaris 10 which has changed its partition number because it used to be equal to Linux Swap File, I've tryied Partition Manager, Partition Magic and none seems to works, if somebody knows about a partition manager that detects Solaris partition let us know

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