Shawn Walker wrote: > When I tried to a clean install of SXDE b72 over my b70 installation, > the installer complained about being unable to change the partition > type when there was more than one on the disk. This message was > confusing since there is only one Solaris partition on the disk. > > It did the same thing when I tried to do a clean install of b72 over a > b72 installation. > > To fix it, I had to: > > 1) alt-tab to the debug shell > > 2) find which /dev/rdsk contained my solaris partition > > 3) Delete the solaris partition > > 4) update and exit fdisk > > 5) reboot > > I found that unless I rebooted, it would still complain. > > The original installer does not have this issue. > > I assume that we will eventually have a full graphical version of > fdisk in the new installer? Using fdisk at the moment stinks, if only > because you have to manually figure out which /dev/rdsk entry > represents your drive :( > > Thanks, > > This problem was introduced in b72 and fixed in b73. The corresponding bug is 6598482 - New installer fails in the GUI continue if more than one unused/empty partitions.
- Sundar
