[indiana-discuss] Can Opensolaris 2008.05 share a partition with Nevada or S10?

[Dave Miner]

Steffen Weiberle wrote:
> Brian Nitz wrote:
>> I appreciate that is is now possible to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 on a 
>> partition alongside GNU/Linux, BSD, MS-Windows, OSX or _almost_ any 
>> other X86 OS the user chooses.  However, I would like to see the 
>> capability of OpenSolaris to live alongside Solaris 10 or Solaris 
>> Nevada.  It takes some careful work during install and manual grub 
>> configuration, but Solaris Nevada and Solaris 10 can share a partition. 
>>
>> Is there any way to confine OpenSolaris 2008.05 to a slice so it can 
>> live alongside other Solaris distributions or must it live inside a 
>> VirtualBox?
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> 
> I filed http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1223 to 
> preservice existing Solaris slices.
> 

I'd suggest installing it as your primary and have Solaris 10 live in 
the VirtualBox.  Virtualization is a heck of a lot more convenient than 
multi-booting for a lot of purposes.

But if your usage doesn't allow that, then multi-booting with Solaris 10 
or Nevada is a manual process to set up.  A couple of approaches:

1.  Install OpenSolaris to an alternate disk (like a 4 GB USB flash 
drive), boot from it, then add the slice in your multi-boot disk as a 
mirror to the pool (zpool attach...).  Let it resilver, then detach it. 
  Update GRUB menu in the multi-boot disk as needed.

2.  Install OpenSolaris to an alternate disk or VirtualBox instance and 
use zfs send/zfs recv to copy the datasets to a pool you create on the 
slice in your multi-boot disk.  Detlef Drewanz wrote up detailed 
instructions for this internally (search nv-users archives), which I'm 
hoping he'll post to a blog or something to share with the community.

Dave