On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Gorky Hasseldorf wrote:
> Thanks frankho for the reply.
>
> It seems this is a difficult task for the moment and people are working on it.
>
> I will be in trouble to install it on a logical partition.
>
> On this computer, Mandriva 2007, FC6, Windows XP and open SuSE 10.2 work fine.
> I have created additional partitions.
>
> I thought I could install opensolaris on one of the empty partitions. All
> those partitions are logical ones.
Hi Gorky,
as mentioned, this is unfortunately not (yet) possible. Solaris right now
requires a primary partition.
Can you relocate the free space (the empty logical partition) to either
the end or the start of the extended partition ? If so, you could shrink
it and create a new primary from the freed space, which would allow you to
install Solaris.
But then, you're using SuSE 10.2 / FC6 ? You might want to try installing
OpenSolaris as a Xen domU as both of these Linux distributions include
the hypervisor. Yes, it's not directly-on-metal but installing in a
virtualized environment allows to bypass the need for a primary partition.
We've got a Xen port, it's fully paravirtualized so you don't have a huge
speed impact by running it as Xen domU.
See the xVM project here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/
and the [EMAIL PROTECTED] forum for help/troubleshooting.
Would that be an option ?
FrankH.
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