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Old 07-04-2002
samprax samprax is offline
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Question problems about installing Solaris 8 on PC

1. OSes coexistence
can i install solaris 8 on my pc's 3th primary harddisk partition without damage the user and boot datas of installed operation system? and does i have to install Solaris 8 within several G(such as 8G) size of the harddisk? the following is partition table of my harddisk:

primary partition 1 (3G): Windows 98 SE, FAT32
primary partition 2 (4G): SCO Openserver 5.0.6
primary partition 3 (5G): FAT32 (some Windows files)
logical partition 1 (5G): Windows 2000 Server, NTFS
......

2. booting floppy disk
there are some files like Sol8dca.img and s8i-boot.IMZ. it seems write them into floppy disk and then use to boot and install Solaris, am i right ? and how i can write them into floppy disk?

Thanks!
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