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  1. SilverLinkX2

    Solaris 10 install doesn't recognize free space?

    It's a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop. One hard drive. Three primary partitions already taken up. I think I'm going to try a different approach. I'm just going to install Solaris and use it's grub to boot my other two windows partitions. I thought that wouldn't work but today I was able to boot...
  2. SilverLinkX2

    Solaris 10 install doesn't recognize free space?

    Ok, I think I almost have it. I have to reinstall grub to the partition that solaris is installed in, so that would make it hd0, 3. I tried using the command installgrub -m /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d3s0 and it gave me an error message stating: cannot open/stat device...
  3. SilverLinkX2

    Solaris 10 install doesn't recognize free space?

    I used partition logic to create a solaris swap and a solaris partion on the free space I had remaining. When I did an fdisk -l using ubuntu it showed all 7 partitions on my hard drive (mbr, vista, xp, linux swap, linux, solaris swap, solaris). When I tried installing solaris however it only...
  4. SilverLinkX2

    Solaris 10 install doesn't recognize free space?

    No, it's just unpartitioned space at the end of the disk. What would you use to format it? Can it be a logical partition? If so what other volumes do I need inside the partition? Does it come with it's own bootloader or do I need to edit my grub? What filesystem should I use? Thanks
  5. SilverLinkX2

    Solaris 10 install doesn't recognize free space?

    Hi I'm completely new to Solaris and I ordered a free DVD from the sun site. I want to install it. I have 3 primary partions on the hard drive (MBR, Vista, XP) one logical with two extendeds inside (Ubuntu: swap and root) and I have roughly 20 gigabits free at the end of the hard drive. The...

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