Installation advice needed

From: Robert V. Sigillito (rsigill@aplcenMP.apl.jhu.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 07:41:11 PST

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    Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:41:11 -0500 (EST)
From: "Robert V. Sigillito" <rsigill@aplcenMP.apl.jhu.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10102061028530.17372-100000@aplcenMP.apl.jhu.edu>
Subject: Installation advice needed

    Greetings,

    I'm having some problems with my Ultra 5. This machine (400mhz w/256mb
    RAM) has a 30gb IBM hard drive. I undertook the challenging task of
    installing two version of Solaris (2.6 and 8) and Suse Linux 7.0 on this
    box.

    First I installed Solaris 2.6. When I went to install 2.6 it saw the hard
    drive as having a max capacity of 8142mb. No big deal I figured since I
    wanted to using a max of 5500mb for 2.6. Did the install everything works
    fine. I go to install Solaris 8, figuring it will see the remainder of the
    disk. Wrong. I guess what happened is that since 2.6 can't handle a big
    disk it wrote the disk information to the drive, when 8 went to install it
    reads this info and says "the disk is 8142mb". I have know idea how to
    remove this information so 8 can install, short of putting the disk in a
    PC and reformatting.

    What I was wondering was, if I install SuSE Linux in the first 15gb, and
    then attempt to install Solaris 8 in the remaining space would that work?
    I'm reallyout on a limb on this one. I've never tried to make a Sparc run
    two OS's on one disk. From what I see it should be possible, but I don't
    know how to undo the damage I've already done.

    Bob

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