Hi. I am new to Solaris. I have been trying to install Open Solaris to dual-boot with Windows XP on my laptop, which has a 60GB HDD. My Windows (system and boot) partition occupies the first c. 12GB of this drive. The rest was data partitions. I backed up the data and deleted the other partitions, leaving about 45GB free space.
I then booted to the System Rescue CD which I burned from the .iso image available on this website. I didn't find QTparted as specified in the screencast from http://frsun.downloads.edgesuite.net/sun/07C00892/media/demos/OpenSolarisDualBoot-Step2-Partition.html, but instead (after typing startx to get the GUI) found Gparted. I used this to create a Linux-swap partition in the free space, which I then got Gparted to format. Rebooting to Windows, this showed up OK as "Unknown partition". I then booted to the Open Solaris Developer Preview Live CD, signing in as jack/jack. I clicked on the Installer icon, but then came the problem: 2 options were displayed, (1)Use the whole disk (2)Use an existing Solaris partition. Unfortunately, although I could see the Windows partition and the Linux-swap partition, they were all greyed out and unclickable. I have tried this about 4 or 5 times, each time the partitions are greyed out and the only option available is "Use the whole disk" - which I don;t want to do as I still need Windows. Can anyone help point me in the right direction to a solution of this issue please? I very much want to try out OpenSolaris and get into the open-Source world. Regards, John This message posted from opensolaris.org
