Solaris uses UFS - the UNIX File System. Partition Magix doesn't know how to make UFS partitions, but you don't need to worry about that. Just leave the space blank. Once you have installed Solaris, you will have Solaris' "Grub" boot loader installed so it is shown first, before Windows XP's boot menu (if you have a menu). Solaris will create an entry labelled "Windows" on the Solaris boot menu so that you can boot into Windows.
Be aware that Solaris' idea of partition is a little different to most other operating systems. Solaris will allocate part of the disk using what it calls an "FDISK partition". Within that you will be asked to create "slices" which are basically partitions within partitions. I would recommend that you do not choose the default layout for the slices since this will most likely result in a small root slice and a large "/export/home" slice, which is not particularly useful for most people. Choose to not create a separate slice for /export/home , and just have a single swap slice and allocate the rest of the partition to the root partition. If you want to separate user data into a different slice from the OS and applications however, you should stick with having a /export/home but make it smaller than the default size, and expand the root partition to take up the slack. As far as accessing Windows files from Solaris goes, Solaris does not come with tools to do this. However, there are tools available to allow read-only access to NTFS partitions at this location: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/binfiles/FSWfsmisc.tar.gz You can also access Windows files from another machine across the network by sharing the files out using standard Windows networking, then using "Samba" on the Solaris machine. You will also find a "Network Computers" icon on the GNOME desktop that gives you access to your Windows network shares. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org
