Johan Hartzenberg writes: > I am guessing the answer is YMMV depending on the differences in versions > of, for example Firefox, Gnome, Thunderbird, etc, and based on how well > these cope with settings that was changed by another potentially newer > version of itself.
The answers to your questions are basically all "no." The new installer wants a primary partition or a whole disk. However, there are helpful blogs from folks who've made the transition. Poor Ed seems to have a broken 'shift' key, but he gives great details here: http://blogs.sun.com/edp/entry/moving_from_nevada_and_live -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677