Glenn Lagasse wrote: > 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. >
I would refer everyone to the roadmap presentation I did for the community last month, which mentions this. Slides are at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/files/install_roadmap_0608_community.pdf Dave
