Anil Gulecha wrote: > On 9/23/07, Sarah Jelinek <Sarah.Jelinek at sun.com> wrote: >> Hi Anil and All, >> >> >>> 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." >>> >>> >> Unfortunately there is a restriction in pfinstall that says if you >> specify a partition type to delete, it will delete all partitions of >> that type. Why don't you see this with the old installer? Because it >> uses a private set of interfaces to specify the cylinder >> boundaries(size) of the partition it wants to delete, thus avoiding all >> sanity checks. With Dwarf, we didn't know about this set of interfaces >> until late in the development cycle. It was too late and too risky to >> fix for SXDE3. We do have a bug open on this and are working on the fix now. >>> 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. >>> >> See above. And, I agree. One thing a user can do, even if they have >> brought up the installer to get around this is: >> >> 1. Exit the installer. >> 2. A terminal window will be brought up. >> 3. Use fdisk to delete the NTFS partition and then create a solaris >> partition. >> 4. Run install-solaris to restart the installer. >> > > Hi sarah, > > I tried fdisk. However it was very difficult to get fdisk working > (perhaps I did it wrong). I tried to find out the disk node using > 'format -e' and then tried various combinations (p0, s0, dsk, rdsk) > without much success.
I think p0 should have worked what errors did fdisk give you? There are some fdisk bugs when attempting to work on a disk partitioned by Windows Vista. -evan > > Is there an easy way to find out the correct disk device node? I'll > add it to an FAQ pointing out the workaround. > >> We should have this fixed soon. > > Cool! > > Regards > Anil > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
