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Old 12-06-2010
Solaris Installation

I have a desktop running on Windows 7. I have added new secondary hard disk. I wanted to install Solaris 10 on the secondary hard drive. Is it possible? So my desktop will be dual bootable? Can it be done?

Thanks for your help.
# 2  
Old 12-06-2010
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Originally Posted by oradba_arun
Is it possible?
Yes.
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So my desktop will be dual bootable?
Yes.
Quote:
Can it be done?
Yes.
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Thanks for your help.
You are welcome.
Just run the Solaris 10 installer and make sure you don't confuse disks ...
# 3  
Old 12-06-2010
Thank you.

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One more quick question.

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Just run the Solaris 10 installer and make sure you don't confuse disks ...
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At what point solaris installation will ask for the disk info? Could you also please tell me how do I make sure that I select the right secondary hard disk?

Thank you.
# 4  
Old 12-06-2010
It will ask at step 33 in the following how-to: Solaris Operating System - How to Quickly Install the Solaris 10 OS on x86 Systems

Disk size or existing disk partitions would be good clues.
# 5  
Old 12-06-2010
Thank you so much. Could you please tell me what type of file system I should choose for the secondary hard drive. Is it NTFS/Fat32/Fat16.

I am running disk wizard to add the secondary hard drive. it is asking for the file system type.
# 6  
Old 12-06-2010
None of the above. Let the Solaris installer create its partition and filesystems. You'll be giving the choice between UFS and ZFS and I recommend the latter.
# 7  
Old 12-06-2010
While installing if I select

3. SOlaris interactive text (Desktop session)

System configuration screen came blank. So I select the

4. Solaris interactive text (Console session) and I completed the installation successfully. But after reboot it asked me the console login and password. As soon as I login the screen is going blank.

Could you please tell me how to fix this?

Thank you.
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