Joshua Tarplin wrote: > I have a dual-boot PC, running Windows XP and OpenSuSE, and I'd like to > replace the OpenSuSE with OpenSolaris. > The dual-boot install of SuSE was very user-friendly, but I'm wondering how > easy/difficult it'll be to switch OS. Can I just over-write the OpenSuSE > volume(s) with OpenSolaris? Is there a special utility included in the > OpenSolaris 2008.11 distro to establish a dual-boot hierarchy? > Much thanks in advance... > Joshua > Actually, the easy way to do this would be to restore Windows to be a single boot. There is a post in the thread below that explains how:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain&tid=6258b829-dcd5-41ba-8935-cfc50c23323b&cat=&lang=&cr=&sloc=&m=1&p=1 Once it's a single boot system, go into windows and bring up the disk manager. Blow away the partitions that were Linux. Once they're gone, when you boot from Solaris it will happily help itself to all that free space. Regards, Greg
