Hi, Yes you can do it like this:
run your machine with ubuntu 1... declare the partition sda2 as Solaris code ( be or bf ) with fdisk save it. ( Solaris accept only primary partition 2..... reboot your machine install your opensolaris on your sda2 ( you can do it elsewhere). Opensolaris detects it automatically. Be carefully with otherpartiton 3..... After installing opensolaris, which recognize windows as system but not linux, your reboot your machine with CD1 of ubuntu or debian in order to change the boot menu. So you mount your /dev/sda3 for example mount /dev/sda3 t mount -o bind /dev t/dev mount -t proc /proc t/proc chroot t you need to mount proc and dev, otherwise after chroot, they will be hidden for the kernel !!!!!!! complete your /boot/grub/menu.lst with opensolaris title, exactly like lines for windows then grub-install /dev/sda to install the new menu That's it enjoy best regards bela On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:19 PM, John Smith <ma3x_smith at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello: > > Lately I am into reading quite a lot about the project and quite naturally > wish to try it for myself. At the moment I have WinXP + Ubuntu + Fedora > installed on it ans wish to replace the Fedora with OpenSolaris. > > So, the fdisk -l returns the following picture: > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 2551 4474 15454530 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 4475 6386 15358140 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 6387 14593 65922727+ 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 6387 6434 385528+ 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/sda6 6435 14593 65537136 7 HPFS/NTFS > > where you can see that > sda1 = WinXP > sda2 = Fedora > sda3 = Ubuntu > sda5 = swap > sda6 = NTFS data storage, accessible from all 3 current OS > > I carefully watched the screencasts located here > http://frsun.downloads.edgesuite.net/sun/07C00892/index.html > In one of them, although referring to Solaris Express, it says that should > I format partition X to Solaris, all subsequent partitions will be erased? > > Please answer for me the following questions: > 1) Should I decide to install OpenSolaris on sda2, will this kill all > subsequent partitions and destroy the data on them? > 2) If the answer to the above is "Yes", how should I proceed best, so that > I have WinXP + Ubuntu + OpenSolaris installed on my laptop? > 3) In the other screencasts I found online, I did not see option to disable > the automatic install of GRUB by OpenSolaris install. How can this be > achieved? I wish to keep the GRUB installed by Ubuntu and add OpenSolaris in > there, rather than replacing the existing with a fresh OpenSolarish GRUB and > add the existing OS in it. > > For any assistance and links to RTFM I would be much obliged ;) > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20090419/b47d94d8/attachment.html>
