Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-13 Thread john kroll
How again did you get Tiny.Prototype.LegacyPC.Marksweep.Min.MarkSweep going again in xvm ??? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-12 Thread Cj
I tried the gparted sw and it wont let me resize my disk. Im going to post there to. It asked if I wanted to save the error file but I have no idea where it saved it. Doesnt say much jsut says it wont resie down from 232G to 100G. I wanted to make a 100G XP, 80G solaris and 52G data.

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-12 Thread Cj
I went into safe mode and it worked that time ... go figure. Doing the install of opensolaris now. I was impressed it found my wireless network from the bootable cd. very cool. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suggest the gparted live CD, which I just used to resize my laptop's partition so I could dual-boot between multiple operating systems: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ It's free. *Backup your data first!* Well, I would not use gparted again. It did

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-11 Thread Cj
I am not using vista but XP will I have the same issue then? Anyone done this with XP? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Cj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not using vista but XP will I have the same issue then? Anyone done this with XP? Should work fine with XP. I have used it on many laptops. However as usual I cannot give you a guarantee. Backup your data and backup the

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Thurlow
Joerg Schilling wrote: Well, I would not use gparted again. It did destroy a Vista installation because if moved (shifted) the vista partition by several sectors without being told to do so. It turns out that vista includes a tool to shrink ntfs partitions - forgot the name. I've

[osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-10 Thread Cj
OK I am sure this probably very basic but what boot manager do you all use? What I have is : Toshiba LT that is just got a new 250G drive for (ditched the 80G). I loaded XP on it but did not partition it. Now i want opensolaris I want to make ~80G for xp, ~100G for opensolaris or more so I

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-10 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/7/10 Cj [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK I am sure this probably very basic but what boot manager do you all use? grub, which comes with OpenSolaris/Solaris and is specially modified for it. What I have is : Toshiba LT that is just got a new 250G drive for (ditched the 80G). I loaded XP on it but