John, Thanks for replying. The machine, as it came from HP, has Windows Vista on it. If I understand what you are suggesting, you are saying that the disk, as formatted/partitioned by Windows, is not "right" for OpenSolaris, and has to be repartitioned. Is that correct?
Kostas John Brewer wrote: > boot up live cd and run >pfexec echo |format # rem to get the HD cXdX > pfexec fdisk /dev/rdsk/cXdXp0 # under fidks you can shange the Solaris2 fdisk > partition size if need > be. > pfexec format >Then select the HD no, then p and > change slice 0 and increase it to at least 16g I use 64g, > to allow for luupgrade to work under the rpool that uses > s0