Gorky Hasseldorf wrote: > Frankho, I am sorry for the belated reply. I was very busy with so many other > things during the last 3 days. > > I have created 3 primary partitions and the fourth one expanded into many > logical partitions. > > All the primary partitions are filled with programs which includes Windows XP. > > I don't want to remove programs from the primary partitions. I want to > install opensolaris on one of the logical partitions. I have 5 or 6 empty > logical partitions. > > I want to install other Linux distros and opensolaris on those partitions. > There are no problems with Linux distros. I can smoothly install any Linux > distro. > > Solaris and opensolaris are liabilities. For some strange reason they want > primary partitions. > > Recently I met people at SUN corporation. They hold a conference. It was SUN > Expo 2008. They told me developers of Solaris do not want to change the > requirement of a primary partition. >
That would be incorrect. We would like to remove the limitation, but it requires work in a number of areas and will take some time. In the meantime, as Frank suggested, you might try virtualization with Xen or VirtualBox, because then you'll be able to run multiple OS's at once rather than one at a time. Dave _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
