You can delete the Dell utilities partition, but note that if you phone up Dell looking for support and they ask you to run something from the utilities partition but you've deleted it, they are likely to refuse to go any further in helping you. Also, if your PC did not come with a Windows XP CD then your only copy of the XP install files will be in a hidden partition - possibly the utilities partition. Deleting the utilities partition may therefore clobber your only copy.
If you are happy to go ahead and delete the Dell utility partition, then the easiest way is the use the Windows program "Partition Magic". Unfortunately you need to pay for this! If you don't want to shell out money for a partition editor, download a Knoppix Live CD from knoppix.net . This is a Linux distribution on a Live CD. Boot the machine from this, then open a terminal window and type "qtparted". This utility will allow you to delete the hidden Dell utility partition, and also resize your Windows partition to allow space for Solaris (since the Solaris installer doesn't have this ability). Once you get Solaris installed, it will install grub in the MBR on your hard disk and add an entry for Windows to the GRUB menu. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
