Linux+Solaris HOWTO

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