[caiman-discuss] Complaint about Dwarf-caiman on b72

[Sarah Jelinek]

Hi Anil and All,


> Hi,
>
> Having heard of the great reviews of dwarf-caiman, I was going to
> present it to a group of 30.
>
> The way the laptop HDD was configured was like this:
> Patition 1: 30 gb (windows, ntfs)
> partition 2: 20 gb (ntfs)
> partition 3: 25 gb (ntfs)
>
> So in the partion select step these are seen as ntfs, ntfs, ntfs..
>
> I select the third, and change ntfs to solaris. And hit next, upon
> which I'm presented with a
>
> "Unsupported partitioning configuration"
>
> "SXDE does not support changing the partition type when two or more of
> that type exist on the disk. Please quit the installer .. run FDISK in
> the terminal window to create solaris partition. Then restart the
> installer."
>
>   
Unfortunately there is a restriction in pfinstall that says if you 
specify a partition type to delete, it will delete all partitions of 
that type. Why don't you see this with the old installer? Because it 
uses a private set of interfaces to specify the cylinder 
boundaries(size) of the partition it wants to delete, thus avoiding all 
sanity checks. With Dwarf, we didn't know about this set of interfaces 
until late in the development cycle. It was too late and too risky to 
fix for SXDE3. We do have a bug open on this and are working on the fix now.
> What possible connection might the number of NTFS partition have on
> installing solaris? The above configuration is _very_ common. A very
> big portion of the audience (only-windows users) is being cut off.
>   
See above. And, I agree. One thing a user can do, even if they have 
brought up the installer to get around this is:

1. Exit the installer.
2. A terminal window will be brought up.
3. Use fdisk to delete the NTFS partition and then create a solaris 
partition.
4. Run install-solaris to restart the installer.

We should have this fixed soon.

Regards,
sarah
*****
> Regards
> Anil
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