[OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot

[Reginald Beardsley]

Run various operating systems in virtual machines.

It would appear from the other post that the  hostility of the various installers is not as extreme as it was.  Detailed instructions on the wiki woul be really nice.

--- On Sat, 12/22/12, mattias <mj at mjw.se> wrote:

> From: mattias <mj at mjw.se>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 2:09 PM
> what use virtualbox for?
> Reginald Beardsley skrev 2012-12-22 20:52:
> > My advice is don't.  Do one of the following:
> >
> > Use a USB disk and use the BIOS to boot from
> that.  You'll need to always plug the disk into the
> same USB port, but otherwise it's quite painless.  I do
> this w/ my Solaris laptop when I want to boot Linux.
> >
> > Use removable drive caddies and a socket.  This is
> what I do on all my desktop systems.
> >
> > Install a VM hypervisor, e.g. VirtualBox.
> >   
> >
> > 10+ years ago I made a system boot FreeBSD, Linux and
> Solaris.  It took over a dozen install attempts. 
> After that I switched to drive caddies.
> >
> > Have Fun!
> > Reg
> >
> > --- On Sat, 12/22/12, mattias <mj at mjw.se> wrote:
> >
> >> From: mattias <mj at mjw.se>
> >> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot
> >> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> >> Date: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 1:36 PM
> >> are it possible to dualbot oi and
> >> windows?
> >> if so
> >> what should i select when partioning
> >>
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