I have a dimension E-521 and had no trouble installing solaris. Had to do a
reinstall of windows with the disk dell provided with machine. You have to
reallocate hd0 giving windows ntfs an appropriate amount and leaving the
remaining boot partition blank note you can have up to 3 primary partiti
thx Andrew that's just what I needed to know. I think I'm going to have to pay
for a partition mgr since getting rid of the dell system resources is tricky
since it's on sector 0 if I understand correctly. Sorry about the late
response. I'm still recovering from the crash when i tried to insta
You can delete the Dell utilities partition, but note that if you phone up Dell
looking for support and they ask you to run something from the utilities
partition but you've deleted it, they are likely to refuse to go any further in
helping you. Also, if your PC did not come with a Windows XP CD
I have read on other theads that Dell does something funky with their PCs like
installing Dell utilitis on 0, which probably confuses Grub. I'm basically a
Photoshop user trying to escape XP, but need it to run CS3. Anyway, my HD 0
had the boot sector corrupted during the install session when
