Hi Shashi, Unfortunately, you will need to create a primary partition for OpenSolaris. There's a bit more information in the FAQ <http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolaris/OpenSolaris0811InstallationFAQ#OpenSolaris0811InstallationFAQ-Question%3AHowshouldIrepartitionmydisk%3F>.
Regards, Brian Shashi Harige wrote: > Hi there, > I am new and need help in dual-booting Opensolaris 2009-06 with windows xp > pro. > My HDD is 150G. Out of which 50G is primary partition on which Windows Xp pro > is installed and the rest of the HDD is logically partitioned in 3 again.In > that 2 of them have data and 3rd one is empty ( all of them are NTFS ). I > intend to install the Opensolaris on 3rd partition which has 16G of space and > is totally unused. > > I boot from the disk, it loads the live cd and I get to the desktop in > opensolaris and I continue the installation. However now the Opensolaris can > see my Hard Drive as having only 2 partitions, one being the 50G primary ( XP > one ) and the other being close to 100G , and it does not show the 3 > partitions in that 100G space as mentioned above. I do not want to lose data > on my other partitions. > > It lets me select that 100G space for Solaris partition (wanting to turn the > whole of 100G to Solaris FS) but with a warning of deleting all the data. > > > Please help me , how can I not lose any data but also have my windows XP > running and Opensolaris installed one that unused 16G partition. > > > Shashi~ > -- W. Brian Leonard Technology Evangelist 408.404.6884 http://blogs.sun.com/observatory -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20090810/c7b32b43/attachment.html>
