Hello, I have been using Linux since the very first 2.4 releases, and I have also been developing mainly C,C++,Java,Ada user and system applications on it, but I am very new to OpenSolaris.
A few months ago I read this OS is in a transition to fully become open source, so I decided to install, use, study the code and contribute to it (at least starting from bug fixing). Let's come back to my problem... I want to install OpenSolaris Developer Edition b55 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook. The only free disk space I can reserve to it is a 10GB partition found within an extended one which partially is occupied with a Gentoo GNU/Linux system. Then I have two questions about it: 1) Are 10GB enough for OpenSolaris? Consider, please, that I want to use the system only for learning basic administration tasks and for studying the system tools and kernel codes. I don't need a big home directory, since the system wouldn't be used for production. 2) This is the output of "fdisk -l /dev/sda": Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 12 96358+ de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 13 1836 14651280 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 1837 9337 60251782+ 5 Extended /dev/sda4 9338 9729 3148740 db CP/M / CTOS / ... /dev/sda5 1837 1970 1076323+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 1971 3915 15623181 83 Linux /dev/sda7 3916 8170 34178256 83 Linux /dev/sda8 8171 9337 9373896 82 Linux swap / Solaris Can I install OpenSolaris DE in /dev/sda8? Please, consider that the 8171-9337 range is internal in a extended partition /dev/sda3, where Linux occupies sda5 (swap), sda6 (root) and sda7 (home). I am asking this latter question because I had to abort a previous installation at the point where the procedure asked to confirm installation of OpenSolaris in the extended partition /dev/sda4 treating that as a whole. I mean that I understand it wanted to re-format the whole extended partition without knowledge that it is partially occupied with Linux (as I described above). I hope I have been able to explain the second issue, notwithstanding my poor English. The question is: can I install OpenSolaris in /dev/sda8 without destroying the Linux system in sda5, sda6 and sda7? If yes, how can I? Thank very much to all of you who will reply. Regards, fabio This message posted from opensolaris.org
