Amey Abhyankar wrote: > Hi, > I have Solaris 10 11/06 edition for x86/64 . I have Centrino 1.5 powered > laptop with ATA hdd . I created 6 GB "RAW" partition for Solaris 10 > installation. I put the Solaris DVD, everything went fine till partitioning > thing. Solaris partitioner scheme failed to detect "RAW" partition. > > I tried several trick's by fomratting the respective RAW partition by > "EXT3", "EXT2", "Reiser FS" & "SWAP". Solaris installer failed. >
You do not create a RAW partition. You need to leave Unpartitioned Free Space, so that the Solaris installer can pick it up. Alternatively you can create a "Solaris2" partition from Gparted/Qtparted, but it is strictly not necessary. Just leaving free space is enough. > Any work around ? > > [ I already have Windows XP Pro & OpenSuSe 10.2 installed on my IBM ThinkPad > R50e laptop. Solaris installer was taking 900 MB SWAP space of SuSe for > Solaris installation which was quit weird. ] > The partition ID for Linux swap used to clash with the partition ID for Solaris earlier. So Solaris changed to use a new partition ID called "Solaris2". To prevent any confusion you might want to put your Linux swap in an Logical partition. Regards, Moinak. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >
