As already mentioned, your D and E are logical drives on a single DOS-style extended partition.
You may be able to perform some tricks in [b]qparted[/b] to make this work. First you need to download a Linux bootable CD containing qparted. I have a version which boots from a USB flash drive --- sorry I can't remember it's name. Just google it and you will find something. After booting from the CD/Flash, run qparted and see what it can do. What you want to do is delete the E: logical partition from inside the extended partition, then resize the extended partition so that it is only just big enough for the D: logical partion (which you will not modify). After the resize, you will have some empty space to create a new Primary parition. It is on that new partition that you can install Solaris. Back up your data before doing this. I have successfully resized partitions (and filesystems) containing data using qparted, but I would not have trusted it with anything I wasn't willing to lose. This message posted from opensolaris.org
