On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:59 AM, zfsnoob4 <zfsnoob...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > This is what I'm thinking: > 1) Use Gparted to resize the windows partition and therefore create a 50GB > raw partition. > 2) Use the opensolaris installer to format the raw partition into a Solaris > FS. > 3) Install opensolaris 2009.06, the setup should automatically configure the > dual boot with windows and opensolaris. > > Does that make sense?
That will work fine. Be aware that Solaris on x86 has two types of partitions. There are fdisk partitions (c0t0d0p1, etc) which is what gparted, windows and other tools will see. There are also Solaris partitions or slices (c0t0d0s0). You can create or edit these with the 'format' command in Solaris. These are created in an fdisk partition that is the SOLARIS2 type. So yeah, it's a partition table inside a partition table. The caiman installer will allow you to create and install into fdisk partitions. It creates a Solaris slice that uses the entire fdisk partition. If you want to change the size or layout of the slices, you can't do it at install time. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
