Roland Godfredsen wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install onto a partition. I'm not familiar with partitioning. > I have Ubuntu installed, and used gparted to shrink my Linux partition, > leaving me 50 GB of space. This is my first experience with gparted. > > When I get to the installation screen where I am to choose which partition to > install onto, I am presented with the two partitions that belong to Linux, > plus there are two more dropdown type selections below. I choose Solaris, > and give it 20 GB. > > At this point, to me, I think I am creating a Solaris partition. Perhaps > I'm mistaken here. > > When I click "next", I get a pop-up telling me something about having to > resize my partition, and when I click OK on that, it resets my Solaris > selection to 0.1. If I click "next", I get another pop-up telling me that > that partition size is too small. If I increase it again, I get that pop-up > about resizing, and so on. > > Any advise? > > Thanks, > Roland > Hi Roland,
am just about to leave for the airport so unfortunately will have to keep this short and sweet! But what I would do first is not use Gparted but fdisk! Then completely delete one partition and let OpenSol format the free space for you. Go to CLI in Ubuntu (Accessories->Terminal) then type: sudo fdisk -l that should list the partition table for you, should look like this: [code] :~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x34f7742e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 19453 156256191 bf Solaris /dev/sda2 19454 23709 34186320 83 Linux /dev/sda3 * 23710 25534 14659312+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 25535 38913 107466817+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 25535 38665 105474726 83 Linux /dev/sda6 38666 38913 1992028+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x426ab999 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 24321 195358401 83 Linux [/code] with /dev/sda* or hd* being the disk identifier! Read a little on Google as to how to use fdisk and also use man fdisk too. Should be fdisk /dev/sda1 as example for partition 1 on drive. Then press m for instructions, hit d for delete and create new by pressing c (if I recall). Provided you haven't already messed up your partition table. You are looking at min. 1 x Solaris, 1 x Linux, and 1 x swap!! The rest is done from OpenSol cd and should be simple process (bare in bind that you will loose Linux GRUB as post install of (O)Sol will format MBR). -- for this see my old posting here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=27311 that should fix that! Apart from that have fun, sorry couldn't be more helpful got a plane to catch ;-) Good Luck! Regards, --K
