Samuel Kemp wrote: > Hi, > > I have played around with the OpenSolaris live CD and would like to > install the operating system on my laptop with a dual boot set-up (my > other OS being Windows XP). > > The last time I installed a Unix-Like system (Fedora) was about 3 > years ago. From memory, one could re-partition the hard drive in the > installation of Fedora -- i.e. it was really easy. When I have tried > to install OpenSolaris (from the live CD), this feature is not > included. Am I missing something, or has the linux community moved > away from including hard disk partitioning in the installation > procedure in favour of using GParted or fdisk before installing the > operating system. >
OpenSolaris provides destructive repartitioning as part of the installer (it's the second screen), but not non-destructive, for which you'll need to use gparted. Dave
