{"id":28,"date":"2008-03-13T02:12:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T02:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2012-05-04T19:40:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T19:40:30","slug":"an-easier-way-to-dual-boot-under-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/an-easier-way-to-dual-boot-under-indiana\/","title":{"rendered":"An easier way to dual boot under Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever want to run fdisk<\/tt>(1) on a machine just to label a partition?<\/h3>\n

Recently in the February FROSUG meeting<\/a> I was being a less than polite speaker as Ginnie Wray was presenting. I felt bad about my lack of manners, but I think Ginnie knows me well enough to understand I was wanting to make a cool tool, to – I hope – make someone’s day a bit better.
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Ginnie was presenting on how to dual-boot Windows Vista and Project Indiana<\/a> Developer Preview 2. This isn’t supported by the installer directly, however, the installer will happily install into a Solaris partition if one’s available. The steps required are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a new partition on the disk (which one can do live, while running Vista)\n
  2. To boot the Indiana live CD (or live USB)\n
  3. To find the root disk’s \/dev\/rdsk\/<\/tt> path<\/strike>\n
  4. To run fdisk<\/tt>(1) on the root disk<\/strike>\n
  5. Then change the partition type for the newly created partition to Solaris\n
  6. To Install Indiana\n<\/ol>\n

    Ginnie in her talk, very nicely, showed how one could use the terminal, and find the root disk, and give the proper arguments to fdisk<\/tt>(1), change the partition type, and then finally install Indiana. However, it seems a graphical tool would make life easier for someone.<\/p>\n

    So, if you would like a graphical fdisk<\/tt>(1) launcher utility here<\/a> you go. (One may need to hold the right mouse button down, and click save as to download; then run by simply double clicking.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Trying to run fdisk<\/tt>(1) and not quite sure how to invoke it? Here’s a simple graphical launcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}