> 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 can use free space on your hard disk, or it can use the whole disk. There is currently no option to resize existing partitions, as there is in many Linux distributions. Your best bet is to use the gparted live CD from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ to create some free space on your hard disk, then install OpenSolaris into the free space. Cheers Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
