Having heard of the great reviews of dwarf-caiman, I was going to
> present it to a group of 30.
>
> The way the laptop HDD was configured was like this:
> Patition 1: 30 gb (windows, ntfs)
> partition 2: 20 gb (ntfs)
> partition 3: 25 gb (ntfs)
>
> So in the partion select step these are seen as ntfs, ntfs, ntfs..
>
> I select the third, and change ntfs to solaris. And hit next, upon
> which I'm presented with a
>
> "Unsupported partitioning configuration"
>
> "SXDE does not support changing the partition type when two or more of
> that type exist on the disk. Please quit the installer .. run FDISK in
> the terminal window to create solaris partition. Then restart the
> installer."
I have seen this problem affect atleast three people who wanted to install
Solaris.
Given that the pfinstall backend remains the same, why did Caiman introduce
this new restriction ?
What possible connection might the number of NTFS partition have on
> installing solaris? The above configuration is _very_ common. A very
> big portion of the audience (only-windows users) is being cut off.
>
>
I can't agree more. I've asked people to resort to the old installer because
they hit this problem.
Over a period of time the advice
if ( !config1 && !config2 && !config3)
use caiman
else
use old_installer
tends to detoriate into "use the old installer" - Which is definitely not
what we want :-)
Cheers,
Ananth
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