Re: [osol-help] Remove WinXP partition

2009-01-06 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Sorry to jump in late. The instructions for removing the WinXP partition given above seem to be correct, but they won't do you much good, since ZFS won't automatically detect the free space. Furthermore, I don't believe that you can even manually make ZFS use the extra space, if you increase

Re: [osol-help] Remove WinXP partition

2009-01-06 Thread John Brewer
You can remove your WinXP using the Solaris fdisk command, be careful, but not adding it back using the menu interface, for that you need to look at man page for fdisk -w vs. -W Also you can setup more then one zfs be creating another slice under format command. the rpool uses first slice of

Re: [osol-help] Remove WinXP partition

2009-01-05 Thread Borei
Safe and easiest method to me is to download this and burn it: http://www.allbootdisks.com/downloads/ISO/AllBootDisks_ISO_Image_Downloads25/Win98SE_bootdisk.iso Next, run this for once to clean up MBR: fdisk /mbr Next, use fdisk program to delete the partitions. That's it your HDD is ready to

Re: [osol-help] Remove WinXP partition

2009-01-05 Thread Zablon Ochomo
Hi, try this command and follow on with the menus that will follow: pfexec format -e it is a very scary commands I may say :D -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Remove WinXP partition

2009-01-05 Thread Nik Masloff
Hi, I think I able to migrate from dual-booting with WinX OS to OS with Virtualized WinXP. Currently I have two partitions on my hdd - one for WinXP, and other for OS. Now, I want my whole hdd being used by OS solely. How do I remove WinXP partition, and will OS automatically detect free