Partitioning for Dual boot with XP
After reading many posts and the suggested links from other posts, I am still having trouble getting a partition for solaris to install on. I downloaded the 5 images and burned the CDs so I don't know if disk 1 is the install or if it is the 1 of 2 software disk that people refer to. Either way, it is the only CD I can boot from.
I have prepared the disk drive with Partition Magic 8.0 (PM8) as follows:
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C: 30GNTFS (primary partition)
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30G unallocated (primary partition) - plan to use for solaris
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D: 40GNTFS (logical in extended partition)
F: 10GFAT32 (logical in extended partition)
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When I go into the install, Solaris sees the primary (30G) and extended partition (50G) but doesn't see the 30G that is unallocated at all. If I create a new partition with the 30G using PM8 it gets placed inside the extended partition as a logical drive. When I go to do the install again, it now sees the extended partition as an 80G partition instead of 50G. This makes sense I guess but how do I get another partition that solaris can use without adding it to the existing extended partition for windows?
Do I need to start with only the primary partition, install solaris, and then create the extended partition and logical drives for windows after the solaris installation? There is something simple here I am just not getting....
Thanks,
bausman
