* Michael Schuster (Michael.Schuster at Sun.COM) wrote: > On 02/25/09 17:12, Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> * Michael Schuster (Michael.Schuster at Sun.COM) wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> I just took posession of a Tecra M10. the built-in disk is 149GB, of >>> which 40 are given to the pre-installed Vista and 2 other partitions >>> use 1.5 and 7.5 GB resp. >>> I was going to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 on the remaining 100.1 GB >>> on what the installer shows me is the 4th partition (the others are >>> "unknown/NTFS/unknown"), though *whatever* size I enter I get a >>> dialog telling me that "an adjustment was necessary ...", and the >>> size of the Solaris partition is reset to 0.1GB. >> >> Try pressing '=' in the size dialog. It should calculate to use the >> rest of the remaining space on the disk. > > I did, same result. > > I went back to Vista and deleted the 3rd partition, now I can install.
That's interesting. Do you know what that 3rd partition actually was? By that I mean, what type (other than unknown, did Windows say what type it was)? -- Glenn
