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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...

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...

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...

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

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...