[OpenIndiana-discuss] Building Ekiga/OPAL with H264/H263 support

[Edward Martinez]

On 12/06/10 09:16, Cia Watson wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:18:52 +0530
> Chdslv<chdslv at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>
>> How do you go from here, I don't know.
>>
>> When installed, OpenIndiana only saw MS Windows in the choose panel,
>> (well, I don't know ho wit is called), but doesn't see its partition
>> when Openindiana is opened.
>>
>> I had to get back to Linux, so I had to re-install Mint, but after
>> installing, Mint doesn't see th eOpenindiana partition, nor it is
>> there in the choose panel or GRUB panel. I still have the DVD with
>> OpenIndiana, and there is that installed partition in the hard disk.
>>
>> I would like have OpenIndiana together with Linux and also MS windows
>> (hmmm...I need windows for certain programs, which doesn't ever work
>> with Linux. Don't know, whether these would work with OpenIndiana)
>>
>> If you could help, I'd appreciate that very much!
>>
>> Best regards!
>>
>> Chanath
> Hi Chenath,
>
> For a while I was dual (triple)-booting OpenSolaris (upgraded to OI for
> a short while), with a couple of other Linux distros and I just added
> those distros into the /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst file using the
> chainloader option. I designated the partitions with the standard grub
> (hd0,x) as appropriate.
>
> I later installed Linux Mint Debian which uses grub2, and that grub
> overwrote the Osol grub which I had been booting to. So I tried adding
> the osol partition to the 40_custom file in /etc/grub.d and osol /
> OI booted from that fine. I don't have Windows in the mix, but I
> suspect the chainloader option should work. In case you want it, here's
> what I added to the 40_custom file:
> menuentry "OpenSolaris" {
> set root=(hd0,3)
> chainloader +1
> }
> menuentry "Fedora13 chainloader" {
> set root=(hd0,1)
> chainloader +1
> }
>
> However, given all of that, I have since deleted my OI partition (it's
> sitting empty waiting for CentOS 6 to be released), and when a stable
> OI is released I may get a new drive to put it on, so that ZFS and
> ext3 / 4 and linux swap aren't all trying to coexist on the same drive.
>
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>
       Did OpenSolaris work well?, if so why not continue  using it, the 
pkg.opensolaris.org are still up, then, when  a more stable
       OI comes  upgrade to it or stick with opensolaris :-)

       Regards
       Edward