Moinak Ghosh wrote: > 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.
Forgot to mention, you need one free Primary Partition slot for Solaris. It does not yet support Logical Partitions. Regards, Moinak.
