Emmanuel De Paepe wrote: > I received this error when trying to install SXDE on > a Packard Bell Easynote MX-51 > > 'ERROR: Could not create Solaris fdisk partition (c1d0)' > > Strange since I once succeeded in 'installing' Solaris 10 on this notebook. > Before trying to install SXDE I resized the Mandriva Linux partition in order > to make > some free space available. > > Was the free space a primary partition?
> What I don't get is that the SXDE partition wizard is apparently not able to > recognize a > Linux 'ext3' partition, this in comparison to the Solaris 10 partitiom wizard. > It does recognize a Linux swap though. > Linux swap used to use the same partition id as Solaris, the Solaris partition id was changed to avoid this clash. I think SXCE still recognises a Linux swap partition as a Solaris partition. Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
