On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:59 PM, zfsnoob4 <zfsnoob...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > "It's not easy to make Solaris slices on the boot drive." > > As I am just realizing. The installer does not have any kind of partition > software. > > I have a linux boot disc and I am contemplating using gparted to resize the > win partition to create a raw 50GB empty partition. Can the installer format > a raw partition into a Solaris FS? If it can it will be easy (assuming it can > set up the dual boot properly). > > This is what I'm thinking: > 1) Use Gparted to resize the windows partition and therefore create a 50GB > raw partition. > 2) Use the opensolaris installer to format the raw partition into a Solaris > FS. > 3) Install opensolaris 2009.06, the setup should automatically configure the > dual boot with windows and opensolaris. > > Does that make sense? >
that's exactly what I usually do -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
