Firstly let me admit that I am a complete novice with OpenSolaris. I wanted to try and run the Live CD on my Intel iMac because I have a lot of respect for SUN and wanted to see what Solaris was all about. I had previously managed to successfully boot live CD's of a number of Linux distros without any complications so the risk seemed very low.
I managed to boot up 2008.05 without a hitch and have to say it looked good, nice clean desktop, and considering it was running from the DVD drive ran very fast. The problems arose however, when I tried to re-boot into OS X. It seems that although I was neither asked permission, nor did I at any time ask Solaris, to write anything to any of my drives the live CD overwrote the partition table of my external LaCie d2 750Gb hard drive. Whilst I never doubted that my data was in danger, it did cause a lot of distress and I now find myself faced with a bill to sort out the partitions as I lack both the experience and time to try and sort it out. I would just like really to post a warning that this can happen. Regards IRG in Hong Kong This message posted from opensolaris.org
