If the stuff described below will not work for you, you can also select
the manual partitioning during the Nexenta installation process
and create new partition there. Then install the os on that new partition.
Cheers
Jan
Roman Morokutti wrote:
Thank you for your information. I will try some of the hints
described in the Linux thread.
Roman
Jan Kopriva wrote:
Hi Roman,
yes Nexenta uses different installer, basically whole system tries to
behave like Ubuntu.
To view partitions in format do:
# format
it will display disks
- select disk
- write: partitions on fdisk command prompt
- write print on fdisk command prompt
you shall see all this partitions on the selected disk
what nexenta installer shows you when asking about device to be
installed onto?
is it something like: /dev/dsk/c0d0s0
/dev/dsk/c0d0s1
etc?
c0 - means controller, d0 disk on that controller s0,s1 means "slice"
or partition in this case
created by parted
This link might help you:
http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Getting_Started#head-32c763a7fc611232275c2cc33c1bb6a7686a57ea
or:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=471632
Cheers
Jan
Roman Morokutti napsal(a):
Hi Jan,
maybe I just should have been more precisly about what I intended to
do.
I am trying to install Nexenta. But its installer doesn´t recognize
any partitions.
If I am right, it is based on OpenSolaris (Nevada build). I don´t
know if there
is a different installer than for Solaris itsself.
So I am wondering how to setup for a dualboot with windows. My disk
layout
is the following:
Partition 1 : Windows XP : NTFS : boot flag
Partition 2 : HP Recovery : NTFS
Partition 3 : Newly created with GParted : no filesystem
Is there any command to list partitions? And how to install
OpenSolaris (or Nexenta) into the partition 3?
Roman
Jan Kopriva wrote:
Hi Roman,
the most easiest way would be not to use fdisk/format if you never
done this before,
but more user friendly utilities as Partition Magic or parted
(gparted), depending on
what is you primary os on your box. If you do not have any os
there, use some live os distribution.
Using those tools to resize partition is very easy. You just slide
your partition window to the desired/necessary amount.
And what the amount shall be? Well, at least 2 gigs for swap and
10 gigs for the rest = 12 gigs. I would recommend more
however.
That is all, you do not have to format the new partition nor need
to create the filesystem there, solaris installer will take care of
this.
After that you just run the solaris installer and after system
identification it shell recognize created partitions and ask you
where it shall install
itself. You then selects the newly created partition and let it
auto layout it. The installation then continues....
Hope this helps
Jan
Roman Morokutti wrote:
Hi,
my name is Roman and I am from Austria. It would be glad, if someone
could tell me how to format a secific partition to run OpenSolaris
there.
What would be the steps to do that. How to recognize partitions at
all.
Many thanks in advance, if one can help me on that issue.
Roman
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