[osol-help] how to move to a larger partition

As a result of some accumulated mistakes I ended up with my only HD being 300Gb Vista, 30gb OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 170 Gb unassigned and I want to give those 170gb to OpenSolaris (those 30 and 170 are physically contiguous) what would be the best way to do this? My main problem is that Gpar

[osol-help] how to move to a larger partition

thanks a lot for the detailed response... out of those options, I am leaning toward start again with 200gb instead of trying to append the other 170gbwhen you say backup data, is there a way to take a snapshot of the existing pool to an external hd and "paste" it once I have the 200gb solar

[osol-help] is it me or the "Search" box in these forums always return empty?

I could not find the right forum to complain about the forum's "search" box (ie on the right hand side of the page). am I the only one not finding anything using that box? I find it really annoying! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] am I choosing the rignt partition?

Quite a noob question. Here it goes. I want triple boot, windowx, ubuntu and opensolaris (sxde gave me weird error messages when I tried to install it bu that is for another post) I thought I followed the instructions on the partitioning. I now have a 30 gb windows partition /dev/hda1 and a /de

[osol-help] Upgrade OpenSOlaris

Hi Rick, Welcome to the OpenSolaris world... my suggestion to ease up the transition would be to install virtualbox in your OpenSolaris and install ubuntu of your favorite linux distro. You will find that in terms of ease of use or already made solutions to simple tasks linux might have an adv

[osol-help] permanent files error, unable to access pool

I have been using opensolaris for a couple of weeks, today is my first time I reboot the system and I ran into a problem loading my external hd (meant for backup). I was expecting a more descriptive name of the file names, but given that I have no clue which ones are those, can I just tell the

[osol-help] permanent files error, unable to access pool

it turned out it was quite a stupid question. A simple scrubbing did the trick. after scrubbing the external disk, zpool status showed no errors but still the filesystems were not mounted; I rebooted and it is now working fine. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Installing OpenSolaris

could you provide more details? command line from within another OS? or did you mean, text-based installer? for that, this link might help, http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/TextInstallerProject -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] open solaris in Dell XPS 435

I tried yesterday to install ubuntu 8.04lts on my XPS 435MT (Core i7, ATI Radeon HD 4670 XT) and it seems the graphical installer does not like my ATI cardnow I want to give Open Solaris a shotdoes any of you have any information about whether I should expect a smoother installation with

[osol-help] how to install opensolaris without effecting the previous OS installed???

Just to share my humble experience... I had ubuntu and vista working perfectly side-by-side and I reduced the ubuntu partition to prepare for solaris installation, the instructions mention we should format it linux-swap...so I had 300Gb ntfs Vista, 180Gb Linux-swap=(160Gb Ubuntu, 20Gb free to h

[osol-help] how to install opensolaris without effecting the previous OS installed???

Now that I think about, my problem might be that I ran into the max number of primary partitions. My HDD came with the Vista Partition, a Recovery partition (Dell XPS) and other small partition that I suspect is also related to recovery in case of having to restore the computer to factory-settin