Hi, 

   I think you should run the  Solaris Device Detection tool  first to verify 
that opensolaris 
  can use you laptop.

   On the opensolaris  DVD you downloaded  there is a directory  named  
"sddtool"  
  in this directory is a DOS bat-file   "runsddtool.bat"   which starts a Java 
program that 
  will evaluate  your laptop.  and yes You need to have the JAVA JRE  installed 
 to run this 
  tool. 

  If   sddtool says   that your laptop is good for running solaris you need to  
make place 
  for Solaris  on your diskdrive.    

  Solaris  need a free  PRIMARY PC partition with  15-20  or more gigabyte 
diskspace.
 If your vista partition covers the whole  disk you need to  liberate some 
diskspace 
 from Vista, with a disk partition editor that shrinks Vistas usage of the 
disk. 

This is the best free tool I have found that can mangage PC partitions.

http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/

This is the next best one.

http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

  //Lars
 
 
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