I think the livecd should let you select the entire disk for installation and wipe away the existing partitions on it. If you are up to a challenge, Why not make it a dual boot by installing open solaris on a partition?
You will need to save you existing linux grub entries and restore them manually after installing opensol. Remember to select the right partition for os install. Alternatively, download virtualbox from sun.com and setup a vm guest without changing your linux setup. This is a better option as you are just starting to experiment with opensolaris. ..V -- Brief mesg frm mobile device Pls pradon the tpyos On Jun 24, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Tony Reeves <tonyr60 at gmail.com> wrote: 2009/6/25 Carlos Santana <neubyr at gmail.com>: Hi, I am currently using Linux on my test box and would like to try out OpenSolaris. I wanted reformat my Linux partition and then install OpenSolaris. Linux has /root, /home, and swap partitions. Is there anyway I could grab all that space and make OpenSolaris partition. Right now OpenSolaris gives formatting options for individual partitions, but I don't see any further options to delete n reformat entire linux space. Any insights? You will need to delete all the Linux partitions, then create a single Solaris partitions. Solaris can create slices within the Solaris partition, to manage individual areas for /var, swap etc. but best way for a single disk is to use zfs and one big filesystem. -- Tony Reeves Christchurch New Zealand _______________________________________________ install-discuss mailing list install-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
