[ug-bosug] Installing Opensolaris Part 2

[Moinak Ghosh]

Ananth A wrote:
> Hi Indrajit,
> 
> On 1/30/06, Ghosh, Indrajit (GE Healthcare) <Indrajit.Ghosh at ge.com> wrote:
> 
>>I think the installer is confused with the partition ID. The 0x82 is
>>used as the Linux Swap partition ID and also for the old Solaris
>>partition. Try making a primary partition of type 0xBF for Solaris and
>>it should work.
> 
> 
> ahh ok. but im just curious, why didnt it create a partition with the
> type 0xBF when i deleted the old partition and created a new one under
> the solaris express ???

   0xBF is referred to as the Solaris2 partition which is the type to be
   used while creating a partition for Solaris.  I have 4 OSes installed
   on my lappy - WinXP, SuSE 9.3, Mandrake 10.1, Solaris 10 and they
   multiboot quite happily. I also have a FAT32 partition that use for
   sharing data between all the OSes.

   Anyway installing Solaris for the first time can be a bit confusing
   so we will have a video demo of installing Solaris as well as some
   details on the partition layout for Solaris in the next meet.

Regards,
Moinak.

> 
> Thanks again for your help!
> Ananth
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