[illumos-Discuss] multiboot-fu needed

[Richard Doty]

  On 9/15/10 7:53 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> So, you can do this.  But you have to use multiple slices within the
> same partition.  Once you've given an install the whole partition,
> you're kind of screwed.  You'd have to reallocate that a bit
> differently.
>
> If you plan ahead for this and use slices (which are kind of like
> 'partitions in a partition') intelligently, you can have many different
> installs of Solaris.  I think on x86 hardware up to 16 slices are
> supported on a given partition.   (On SPARC its only 8.)

The only installer I have found that is willing to do this is on the 
textinstall-134-x86.iso image.  Do you mean this is possible with the 
gui installers?

Thanks,

Richard.