On 24/05/07, fabio de francesco <fmdf66 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Do you mean you've been able to find a solution to my problem? If yes, please 
> give some more details.
>
> Anyway, did you you note my intention was to install/boot OpenSolaris to/from 
> a "extended partition"?
>
> Swalker wrote: "Extended partition support for booting/installing Solaris is 
> not
> currently available".

http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/getting_started_guide.html#geibv
"Existing extended partitions are not visible during the Developer
release installation, but the primary fdisk partition in which the
extended partition resides is visible."

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/2006-October/002546.html
"It is currently not possible to install Solaris onto an extended
partition.  You must install on a primary partition." Glenn Lagasse -  Sun

As I said before, you cannot install it on an extended partition.

Resize your existing partitions using a tool such as qtparted, or
gparted (backup everything first!). Then create another primary
partition and install there.

-- 
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

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