[H-GEN] Free Solaris

[Christopher Biggs]

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"James C. McPherson" <James.McPherson at Sun.COM> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> For those interested in installing solaris/x86, I strongly recommend that
> you use a separate disk to do so -- saves you from a whole world of pain.
> (It's what I've done for years now).
>
> James C. McPherson
> --
> Pacrim PTS Engineer            828 Pacific Highway
>                                Gordon NSW 
> Sun Microsystems Australia     2072

>From my experience doing device driver development some years back on
Solaris/x86 2.6 & 2.7 one of the most common results of a kernel panic
is, for some reason, a wiped partition table.

I used to keep a copy of the partition table on my whiteboard and
restore it by hand after a pt-eating crash.

Anybody else ever hear of Solaris doing that?    (Maybe it was just the
particular machine I was using?)

--cjb

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