[from install-discuss] Recently I tried to install S10U3 inside vmware on a 500GB disk but ran into a "small" problem: the disk partitioning using by Solaris (fdisk) does not seem able to deal with large disks as presented by VMWare. To test whether or not it was a vmware vs solaris bug, I tried FreeBSD - it recognised the disk and its MBR table correctly. Is this a known bug? Or an issue for some other forum/group?
Is OpenSolaris any better in this regard? Solaris fdisk reports (500GB disk): Partition Status Type Start End Length % ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== === 1 Ext Win95 0 4176 4177 25 2 Ext Win95 4177 8353 4177 25 3 EXT LBA 8354 54426 46073 100 FreeBSD: Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 63 67103505 67103504 ad0s1 7 fat 12 67103505 67103505 134207009 ad0s2 7 fat 12 134207010 740162745 874369754 ad0s3 4 extended DOS, LBA 15 874369755 102398310 976768064 - 12 unused 0 Actual: Physical: 60801,255,63 Partition 1: 0,1,1 -> 4176,254,63 Partition 2: 4177,0,1 -> 8353,254,63 Partition 3: 8354,0,1 -> 54426,63 (extended) Partition 3a: 8354,1,1 -> 12612,254,63 (logical) Partition 3b: 12613,1,1 -> 15926,254,63 (logical) Partition 3c: 15927,1,1 -> 54426,254,63 (logical) Unallocated: 54427,0,1 -> 60800,254,63 Addendum: Given that FreeBSD now has ZFS, I think I've found my solution - use FreeBSD instead as I'm not sure I have the time to spend fiddling with opensolaris to find out what exactly is wrong :-( This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
