Hi Lucas, > Hello, > > I just back from JavaOne where I got OpenSolaris 2008.05 LiveCd ;) > During my trip I tried to install it on my laptop. > > I had 10GB partition for playing with OpenSolaris, so I switch its type to > LinuxSwap/Solaris and tried to install. Unfortunately installation was broken > about 77% with message like: 'there is no space on disk'. > After investigation and few tries I found out that gui-install tried to > install system on my 2GB linux swap partition instead of selected partition > (10GB). > (summary report before installation showed that 10GB partition was choose for > installation) > > The linux 2 partition type is the same as the solaris partition type, so it sounds as if we have an issue in our code with detecting the correct partition if we have more than one match on a solaris partition type. > When I change linux swap partition's type to i.e. ext2 and there was only one > partition with Solaris type everything works fine and now I'm able to send > this post using my new OpenSolaris ;) > > I would imagine we can reproduce this ourselves pretty easily as well. > I can try recreate this situation and give more details about my partitions > layout, for now simple overview. Partition according to psychical order on > disk: > 1) NTFS > 2) LinuxSwap/Solaris (10GB) - where OpenSolaris should be installed > 3) Linux > 4) LinuxSwap/Solaris (2GB) - where gui-install tried to install OS > > Interesting that we chose the last partition instead of the 2nd which is also a linux swap. Let me see if I can reproduce this and if so, I will file a bug.
Thank you for taking the time to install OpenSolaris and send this data! regards, sarah **** > / Lucas > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > >
