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
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