On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:52:34 +1000
"Trevor Dunstan" wrote:

> heya guys,
>
> Was wondering if anyone is dual booting solaris 10 with windows and
> if so how did it go, I currently have windows server 2003 on a hobby
> box and want to dual boot it with solaris. I have dual booted windows
> server 2003 with Mandriva 2007 and had no probs. If I try and install
> solaris next to these 2, will grub automatically detect windows and
> mandriva and set them up so i can boot into them or is there a little
> more involved ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Trev
>
Hi
No it won't you need to manually enter the windows/linux grub
information into the solaris bootloader, no biggy though.

Have a look here,
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features...ot_laptop.html

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"Trevor Dunstan" writes:

> heya guys,
>
> Was wondering if anyone is dual booting solaris 10 with windows and
> if so how did it go, I currently have windows server 2003 on a hobby
> box and want to dual boot it with solaris. I have dual booted
> windows server 2003 with Mandriva 2007 and had no probs. If I try
> and install solaris next to these 2, will grub automatically detect
> windows and mandriva and set them up so i can boot into them or is
> there a little more involved ?

I have a dual boot with windows XP. Solaris detected XP and made an
entrance in grub. Solaris does not detect linux distros well. That
involves some manual input into the solaris grub.

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Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D
++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++

"Trevor Dunstan" wrote in message
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> heya guys,
>
> Was wondering if anyone is dual booting solaris 10 with windows and if so
> how did it go, I currently have windows server 2003 on a hobby box and
> want to dual boot it with solaris. I have dual booted windows server 2003
> with Mandriva 2007 and had no probs. If I try and install solaris next to
> these 2, will grub automatically detect windows and mandriva and set them
> up so i can boot into them or is there a little more involved ?

I use VMWare for this. I used to dual boot and had no issues. First
install XP leaving enough space for Solaris to use. Then install Solaris.
Works great.

I went to VMWare because I can load them all at once, XP, Solaris, OpenBSD,
FreeBSD, variety of Linux. Just get lots of RAM. With 3GB of RAM I can
have 3-5 open at once. Snapshots are helpful expecially when you apply
patches or something goes wrong with Windows for example.