Hi Turcin, * Turcin Ponican (turcin.ponican at googlemail.com) wrote: > Hello people, > > I'd like to ask for an explanation. I have a couple of friends (about 3 > people) that tried installing OpenSolaris and wanted to have dual boot > either with Windows or with Linux. However, they had all primary partitions > on their disks already used up, so they wanted to put OpenSolaris on the > extended partition. This was not possible, so they eventually gave up trying > OpenSolaris at all, saying it would be much work (and much risk) to > re-shuffle all partitions on their disks, just to try out an operating > system which they didn't even really know much about. > > Since nobody speaks about this (I've done a quick search through this > mailing list's archives), I think this issue will not be addressed in near > future. My question is: how important is this? Am I just not aware of an > easy trick or workaround? > > Thanks for any reaction...
Currently, Solaris/OpenSolaris does not support extended partitions for installation. There was a project on OpenSolaris to add this support, but I can't find it at this time. We know we need this, so I'm sure it'll happen at some point. Cheers, -- Glenn
