Re: [osol-help] how to install opensolaris without effecting the previous OS installed???

2009-08-17 Thread daniel.rodriguez.delg...@gmail.com
Now that I think about, my problem might be that I ran into the max number of primary partitions. My HDD came with the Vista Partition, a Recovery partition (Dell XPS) and other small partition that I suspect is also related to recovery in case of having to restore the computer to factory-settin

Re: [osol-help] how to install opensolaris without effecting the previous OS installed???

2009-08-16 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, ALL, Let me tell you about something good for a change... ;-) I have a computer with 2 hard drives and I had a Gentoo Linux. /dev/hda1 - /boot /dev/hda2 -swap /dev/hdd1 - / When I decided to install Solaris, I downloaded GParted LiveCD, decreased /dev/hdd1 taking off 50GB from it without any

Re: [osol-help] how to install opensolaris without effecting the previous OS installed???

2009-08-16 Thread daniel.rodriguez.delg...@gmail.com
Just to share my humble experience... I had ubuntu and vista working perfectly side-by-side and I reduced the ubuntu partition to prepare for solaris installation, the instructions mention we should format it linux-swap...so I had 300Gb ntfs Vista, 180Gb Linux-swap=(160Gb Ubuntu, 20Gb free to h

Re: [osol-help] how to install opensolaris without effecting the previous OS installed???

2009-08-16 Thread Gary Gendel
It sounds like XP is currently using the entire disk. You need to either add another disk, or create a partition for OpenSolaris to use on your existing disk. The latter can be done with a number of programs. I believe that the open-source Gnome Partition Manager can do this from their LiveCD

[osol-help] how to install opensolaris without effecting the previous OS installed???

2009-08-16 Thread abhay
i hve got installed XP on my system. i need to install opensolaris, but when i start installing, it shows total hard disk...wat to do??? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org