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-Linux+Solaris HOWTO
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-!!!Linux+Solaris HOWTO
-
-!!
-Max Berger
-v0.8-$Revision: 1.1 $, $Date: 2000/04/17 23:48:03 $
-
-
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-'' Describes how
-to use Linux (x86) and Solaris (x86) together on one machine
-''
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-
-
-
-
-!!1. Introduction
-
-
-*1.1 Why Solaris?
-
-*1.2 Things covered in this HOWTO
-
-*1.3 Referenced versions
-
-*1.4 Warning
-
-
-
-
-
-!!2. Preparing your Hard Drive
-
-
-*2.1 Traditional PC partitions
-
-*2.2 Solaris partition labels
-
-*2.3 Hard disk space
-
-*2.4 Quick check list
-
-
-
-
-
-!!3. Preparing Linux
-
-
-*3.1 Building a new kernel
-
-*3.2 Preparing your boot loader
-
-
-
-
-
-!!4. Installing Solaris
-
-
-*4.1 Solaris interactive
-
-*4.2 Web-Start
-
-*4.3 Getting GNU-tools
-
-
-
-
-
-!!5. Boot managing
-
-
-*5.1 Using the Solaris boot manager
-
-*5.2 Using lilo
-
-*5.3 Using grub
-
-
-
-
-
-!!6. Sharing data
-
-
-*6.1 Using a shared partition
-
-*6.2 Alternative ways
-
-
-
-
-
-!!7. Running foreign binaries
-
-
-*7.1 Linux binaries on Solaris
-
-*7.2 Solaris binaries on Linux
-
-
-!!Appendix
-
-
-
-
-!!8. Finding additional info
-
-
-
-
-!!9. Credits and legal stuff
-
-
-*9.1 Credits
-
-*9.2 Questions, comments, suggestions
-
-*9.3 License
-
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-
-!!1. Introduction
-
-!!1.1 Why Solaris?
-
-
-
-This is actually a good
-question. Why use Solaris, when you can have Linux? Solaris is a
-commercial system, the hardware support is scarce. But if you are
-reading this you have probably already decided on using Solaris. If
-not, here are some reasons:
-
-
-* I have a part-time job administrating Solaris
-machines. It is of no use that I learning all the neat
-command parameters and nifty Linux tricks at home, when
-I can't use them on my Solaris-Box.
-*
-
-* Sun was giving away Solaris for what they call
-``Shipping and handling cost only'' for some time. They
-might do that again. And almost-free-of-charge is always
-a good deal.
-*
-
-* Another reason might be that you like CDE.
-*
-
-
-!!1.2 Things covered in this HOWTO
-
-
-
-This HOWTO tries to help you install Solaris 7 or 8 on an x86
-computer already running Linux. The main targets are
-
-
-*not to destroy any data, see section
-Preparing your Harddrive
-*
-
-* To make Linux and Solaris coexist (boot manager),
-see section
-Boot-Managing
-*
-
-* To share data between Linux and Solaris, as described in
-section
-Sharing Data
-*
-
-
-!!1.3 Referenced versions
-
-
-
-The reference versions used while creating this
-document where:
-
-
-*Solaris 7 x86 (= Solaris 2.7 / SunOS 5.7)
-*
-
-*Solaris 8 x86 (= Solaris 2.8 / SunOS 5.8)
-*
-
-*Linux 2.2.14, 2.3.99-pre3
-*
-
-*fdisk v2.10f
-*
-
-The information might apply to other versions of the software, or it
-might all be different.
-
-!!1.4 Warning
-
-
-
-''Please back up any data
-before messing with your system! A lot of the things
-described in this document may result in excessive data
-loss! I am not responsible for any data loss! See also
-section
-Legal stuff''
-----
-
-!! 2. Preparing your Hard Drive
-
-
-To Prepare your hard-drive for Solaris, you need
-to know about standard PC partition tables and
-about Solaris disk slices. In this HOWTO I talk
-about single-disk systems only, but all the
-information should also apply to a multi-disk
-environment.
-
-!!2.1 Traditional PC partitions
-
-
-
-The standard partition-table has only 4 entries. The
-entries important for us are the following:
-
-; __A Primary Partition__:
-
-Takes up one entry, and contains exactly one
-partition. A waste of resources, but the only partition
-you can boot from!
-; __An extended Partition__:
-
-Takes up one entry, but can
-contain multiple DOS, Linux, and other partitions
-; __A Solaris Partition__:
-
-Takes up one entry,
-but can contain multiple Solaris Partitions
-
-To find out what partitions are present on your system, use
-the fdisk program. Partitions numbers 1 to 4
-(hda1..4, sda1..4, ...) are the ones
-in your partition table.
-
-!!2.2 Solaris partition labels
-
-
-
-Solaris has its own partitioning scheme. It
-uses one entry in the partition table, and
-this entry is and acts as this partition would
-be the entire disk.
-
-
-This virtual disk is then divided in up to 8 slices. The
-third slice, s2, covers the whole virtual disk, so you
-actually have up to 7 slices for Solaris.
-
-
-Unfortunately, the Solaris partition entry has the same
-type as a Linux Swap partition (82). Therefore, you should
-not have any Linux swap partitions as primary
-partitions. Linux doesn't care about this, but who knows
-what Solaris does?
-
-
-Although the Linux fdisk program has some ``Sun
-disklabel'' support, this doesn't seem to help any.
-
-!!2.3 Hard disk space
-
-
-
- Of course, Solaris needs disk space. The minimum
-installation of Solaris 8 is about 300 MB. For the normal
-tools its about 700 MB, and for a ``developer-system'' about
-1 GB.
-
-
-But this is only the space required for the base
-installation. You might want to add a lot of GNU-Tools, and
-other stuff. And if you want to share data between Solaris
-and Linux, this has to happen on the Solaris partitions.
-
-
-You might even think of sharing your home directories
-between Solaris and Linux. As the time of this writing:
-Forget it! I messed up my home directory doing so and I was
-''very'' happy about my backup. See also section
-sharing data
-!!2.4 Quick check list
-
-
-
-Here's the quick check list. Make sure you:
-
-
-*have used no more than 3 entries in your partition table
-*
-
-*have no Linux swap partitions as primary partitions
-*
-
-*Have at least 1 Linux ext2 partition as primary
-*
-
-*Have at least 1 GB unpartitioned space
-*
-
-----
-
-!!3. Preparing Linux
-
-!! 3.1 Building a new kernel
-
-
-
-Some people donīt like building a custom kernel. For those of you:
-you ''must'' build your own kernel if you want to share data
-between Solaris and Linux on one hard disk. If, however, you do not
-want to share data, you are safe with your old kernel.
-
-
-Here are your kernel options for ``Solaris compatibility'':
-
-
-*Under code maturity:
-
-; __Prompt for development drivers__:
-
-Unfortunately UFS writing is still experimental.
-
-
-*
-
-*In file systems:
-
-; __UFS file system support__:
-
-UFS is
-the Solaris file system
-; __UFS file system
-write support__:
-
-The only way to pass data
-to Solaris
-; __partition types / Solaris
-(x86) partition table support__:
-
-Is needed
-for the slices within your Solaris partition to be
-found.
-
-
-*
-
-Additional info about kernel building can be found in the
-Kernel-HOWTO
-
-!!3.2 Preparing your boot loader
-
-
-
-''Before
-messing with your boot loader, please make sure that you have
-an emergency disk ready which enables you to boot your old
-system.''
-
-
-Unfortunately the Solaris install
-overwrites the master boot record (MBR) and overwrites your
-old boot manager.
-
-
-Fortunately, the Solaris boot manager
-is able to chain-boot. For this to work you have to put your
-old boot loader (e.g. lilo) into the boot sector of one primary
-Linux partition.
-
-
-For lilo this means: look at your
-/etc/lilo.conf. Look for the boot=
-line. If it is something like boot=/dev/hda1
-everything is fine. But if itīs something like
-boot=/dev/hda it points to the MBR. Please change
-it to point to a primary Linux partition
-(e.g. boot=/dev/hda1)
-
-
-A way to check if your
-boot-loader is chain-loadable is installing lilo in to the
-MBR and trying to chain load your other boot-manager. I used
-the following file called lilo.conf.mbr for
-this:
-----
-
-#lilo.conf.mbr
-#Lilo in Master Boot Record doing nothing but chain-loading another lilo
-boot=/dev/hda
-root=/dev/hda5
-install=/boot/boot.b
-map=/boot/map
-vga=ask
-delay=50
-other=/dev/hda1
-label=lilochain
-
-----
-You can then
-run lilo -C lilo.conf.mbr to install lilo into your
-MBR. And donīt forget to run lilo to have lilo in
-the boot sector of your hard-drive.
-
-
-If you reboot
-now, you should have a lilo-prompt. When you select other this
-chain loads the old lilo, which in turn loads Linux.
-----
-
-!!4. Installing Solaris
-
-!!4.1 Solaris interactive
-
-
-
-
-
-; __Solaris 7__:
-
-Solaris Interactive is on the first CD. Boot it, select
-Solaris interactive
-; __Solaris 8__:
-
-On the Solaris 8 CDs the interactive installer is on
-the first software CD. You don't need the install CD at
-all.
-
-The Solaris installation itself is quite straight
-forward. One thing that might be confusing is the
-partitioning. Solaris will automatically use all the free
-space on your hard disk, and create it's own virtual disk in
-it. And when it comes to slicing up your virtual disk, donīt
-forget to add space for Solaris/Linux exchange. A good place
-for this is an extra /export/share partition.
-
-
-Please Note: If you abort during the Solaris installation,
-the MBR of your hard disk may already be overwritten and you
-may not be able to boot from the hard disk at all.
-
-!!4.2 Web-Start
-
-
-
-I couldn't get Web-Start to work at all. Please mail me if
-you have any experience using it.
-
-
-However, once Solaris was installed, I had no problems
-adding web-start-packages
-
-!!4.3 Getting GNU-tools
-
-
-
-Solaris standard installation doesn't even have a
-less command. Some people recommend getting the
-Redhat Package Manager (RPM) for Solaris, but the standard
-packaging tool will usually do it. You can find many nice
-packages at
-http://www.sunfreeware.com
-The standard packages can be used with
-pkgadd <package>, and the web-start
-packages with
-java <packagewithoutclassextension>
-----
-
-!! 5. Boot managing
-
-!!5.1 Using the Solaris boot manager
-
-
-
-When booting, the Solaris boot manager gives you all 4
-primary partitions for choosing which to boot from. If you had
-your boot loader installed on the boot sector of a primary
-partition, everything should be fine. Just boot from this
-partition, and Linux should come up.
-
-!!5.2 Using lilo
-
-
-
-Now you have lilo as a secondary boot loader, but you want
-it to be your primary boot loader again? No Problem. Lilo
-can easily chain boot Solaris. Just add the appropriate
-other= lines to your lilo.conf
-
-
-For testing, you should add the Solaris chain loading to
-the lilo in your boot sector first. Then try chain loading
-lilo, Solaris, lilo, Solaris, ... until you have enough of
-it. If this works, you should be able to put lilo back into
-the MBR again.
-
-
-However, Solaris might have messed up your partition
-table. This has happened on my system after installation of
-Solaris 8. Lilo doesn't like the new partition, nor does
-fdisk. I had no problems with Solaris 7
-
-!!5.3 Using grub
-
-
-
-Unfortunately, I have no experience with grub booting
-Solaris. If you do, please mail me!
-----
-
-!! 6. Sharing data
-
-!!6.1 Using a shared partition
-
-
-
-If you have build your kernel with Sun disk label support
-and UFS support as mentioned in section
-building your new kernel, you are now able to
-mount your Solaris partitions. During boot up, you should get
-something similar to:
-
-hda:
[[PTBL
] [[523/255/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > hda3 <Polaris: [[s0]
-hda9 [[s1] hda10 [[s2] hda11 [[s3] hda12 [[s6] hda13 [[s7] hda14 >
-
-Meaning (in this case): partition 3 (hda3) is a
-Solaris partition with 6 slices (s0,s1,s2,s3,s6,s7). They
-are mapped to Linux devices hda9 to hda14.
-
-
-Try mounting your Solaris
-partitions. When mounting UFS partitions, you always have to
-add an -oufstype= argument, in this case
--oufstype=sunx86. So the command to mount a
-partition is something like:
-
-mount -oufstype=sunx86 /dev/hda14 /mnt
-
-Now, test your partition. ''Please note: The write support
-on UFS partitions is very experimental. Please don't trust
-any data you write on your UFS partitions!''
-
-
-If you want your Solaris partitions automatically mounted
-at boot time, you can add a line like
-
-/dev/hda14 /solaris ufs ufstype=sunx86 0
-
-to your /etc/fstab
-
-!!6.2 Alternative ways
-
-
-
-And, of course there are always other ways of sharing
-data:
-
-; __Floppy disk__:
-
-I don't know which floppy disk file systems are supported by
-Solaris. Do you? Mail me.
-; __Network__:
-
-Solaris knows NFS. Linux knows NFS. This might actually
-be the best way of sharing data
-
-----
-
-!!7. Running foreign binaries
-
-!!7.1 Linux binaries on Solaris
-
-
-
-Is supposed to work using a program called ``lxrun''. I
-haven't got around to testing it yet. See the Solaris
-web site for more information.
-
-!!7.2 Solaris binaries on Linux
-
-
-
-Are as far as I know unsupported
-----
-
-!!8. Finding additional info
-
-
-Here are some URI that might help you:
-
-
-*
-Sun Freeware
-My first stop for Solaris
-resources. Has many GNU-tools in binary format ready to
-install.
-*
-
-*
-Sun Microsystems
-Suns official web page
-*
-
-*
-Solaris Homepage
-*
-
-*
-Solaris Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
-*
-
-*
-Solaris Online Documentation
-*
-
-*
-My Website
-You will always find the newest version of this document
-somewhere on this page
-*
-
-----
-
-!!9. Credits and legal stuff
-
-!!9.1 Credits
-
-
-
-Thanks to Marcel Meyer for beta testing this HOWTO while
-installing Solaris on his machine
-
-!!9.2 Questions, comments, suggestions
-
-
-
-Are
-always welcome. You can reach me via e-mail at
-max.berger@xslt.de
-!! 9.3 License
-
-
-
-This document is copyrighted (c) by Max Berger. You may
-use and/or modify it according to the Linux Documentation
-Project License (LDPL) found at
-http://www.linuxdoc.org/COPYRIGHT.html.
-
-
-According to the license you don't have to tell me, but I'd
-very much like to know when you modify and/or republish this
-document.
-
-
-Although the information given in this document is believed
-to be correct, the author will accept no liability for the
-content of this document. Use the tips and examples given
-herein at your own risk
.
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