On 22/09/2007, Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Having heard of the great reviews of dwarf-caiman, I was going to > present it to a group of 30. > > The way the laptop HDD was configured was like this: > Patition 1: 30 gb (windows, ntfs) > partition 2: 20 gb (ntfs) > partition 3: 25 gb (ntfs) > > So in the partion select step these are seen as ntfs, ntfs, ntfs.. > > I select the third, and change ntfs to solaris. And hit next, upon > which I'm presented with a > > "Unsupported partitioning configuration" > > "SXDE does not support changing the partition type when two or more of > that type exist on the disk. Please quit the installer .. run FDISK in > the terminal window to create solaris partition. Then restart the > installer." > > What possible connection might the number of NTFS partition have on > installing solaris? The above configuration is _very_ common. A very > big portion of the audience (only-windows users) is being cut off.
Remember that this is a "preview" of the installer, this is not the final version and there is still a lot of work to be done. Partitioning options are somewhat restricted at the moment, both due to bugs and because some things are not complete yet. Such as bug 6598482, which causes the installer to fail with the error you describe when there are two or more empty, unused partitions (though that doesn't seem to apply here). I got the same error message you got on one of my drives that only had *one* Solaris partition! 6598482 is apparently fixed in b73, but I don't know if it is related or will solve your particular issue. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
