Anybody installed Solaris 10 ??

[esumitkumar]

Hi

I have Mandriva One and Windows XP installed . I want to install Solaris 10 on my laptop to practise SQL and Unix..Can anybody guide me how to delete Mandriva and dual boot windows XP + Solaris 10 ?

Does any distribution of Linux comes with pre installed SQL ?

[hellknight]

easy.. Just insert the Solaris DVD.. and follow the instructions.. Solaris will take you to the partition setup.. there you can allocate the partitions to it.. make a 8GB+ partition for Solaris.. and select UFS file system.. the swap partition will be automatically picked up by it or you can re-format it as swap space..

On the other hand.. i'd recommend that you go for OpenSolaris instead of Solaris 10.. Solaris is a bit heavy on resources and doesn't have the wealth of Free Softwares.. on Solaris 10 you'll feel at home using GNOME and OpenSolaris too is UNIX complaint..

Solaris 10 uses Java Desktop Environment (if i remember) which requires at least 512 MB RAM (758 MB recommended)

[esumitkumar]

^^hmm ..so can I just allocate mandriva partitions to Open Solaris so that it can automatically format and install it then ?

Thanks

[Liverpool_fan]

Could you post output of fdisk -l? If your mandriva partition a primary partition then Yes...Yiu cannot install OpenSolaris on a Logical Drive...

[esumitkumar]

oops...I think Mandriva isnt on primary partition ..First I had windows XP on C: and then Mandriva on E: partition...How to do it now ?

[Liverpool_fan]

In that case of if Mandriva is a logical drive. Delete it. Then shrink the extended partition. And then install OpenSolaris by creating a partition on Unallocated Space.
Use Gparted Live CD or Ubuntu Live CD (and run Partition Editor) for this partition tasks.

[esumitkumar]

Before Mandriva :

C: Win XP
D: Logical Drive

I reallocated 8GB out of D drive to unallocated space and then installed Mandriva on that

AFTER MANDRIVA

Now you are advising to delete all linux swap etc partitions and then install Opensolaris on that unallocated space

Am I Right ?

[Liverpool_fan]

Could you post screenshot of Disk Management in Windows OR post the output of fdisk -l in Mandriva?
It would really give more insight what you need.
IIRC Solaris can Use your Linux SWAP, so don't delete SWAP but delete the Mandriva's Root Partition...

[Faun]

or post the screenshot of Gparted

Btw what about this sudden craze of installing OSes ?

[esumitkumar]

^^aise hee yar..kabhi kabhi IT life se bor hoke purane shauk yaad aa jate hai

[hellknight]

great to know that the fire sill burns within you.. but i think that Solaris can be installed on the logical drive too.. just try it and then tell us.. it will warn you if it is not installable on logical drive..

[esumitkumar]

^^okies ..will tell u once its dloaded

[infra_red_dude]

AFAIK Solaris cannot be installed on a logical partition. Free up some disk space and create another Primary partition.

[esumitkumar]

^^ yaar ye kya jhaam hai ?

koi kehta hai logical koi kahe primary

[hellknight]

wait for few hours.. we'll confirm it for you..

Update :-

Here check this out

[infra_red_dude]

I'm pretty sure Solaris needs to be installed on a Primary Partition. You can use GParted to recreate/resize the partitions. But be aware of the fact that you cannot directly convert a logical partition to a primary one.

[esumitkumar]

So it means I have to remove windows ??? no way ...I m not going to recreate partition table again

Also Acer Aspire 5500 doesnt list in Solaris HCL

[hellknight]

you can install OpenSolaris.. it can be installed on logical partition.. and it is also UNIX System V complaint..

[Liverpool_fan]

^^^
No IIRC It can't be. OpenSolaris uses ZFS which has to be primary.

@OP: I warn you it is possible if you try to install it on logical drive, it might erase the extended partition, and all logical drives may get lost in the process.

Originally Posted by esumitkumar

So it means I have to remove windows ??? no way ...I m not going to recreate partition table again

Also Acer Aspire 5500 doesnt list in Solaris HCL

You don't have to remove Windows. You can have upto 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition with an extended partition...er...consisiting of multiple logical drive.

[esumitkumar]

AFAIK a HD cant have more than one primary partition..It can only have one primary partition and then a logical partition which can have many logical drives ..right ?

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by esumitkumar

AFAIK a HD cant have more than one primary partition..It can only have one primary partition and then a logical partition which can have many logical drives ..right ?

No.

[esumitkumar]

^^fdisk says that..also since I have one primary partition C having windows already installed ..frm which tool I can divide it into two primary partition ?

[bharat_r]

If u dont want to disturb ur partitions, install it on vmware.
Tested.It works fine.

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by esumitkumar

^^fdisk says that..also since I have one primary partition C having windows already installed ..frm which tool I can divide it into two primary partition ?

I know that the DOS "fdisk" says that... but it's limitation of "fdisk"

I suggest you use Partition Editor(Gparted) in Ubuntu Live CD or Gparted Live CD or use Qtparted in Knoppix...
If you want Windows based tool, use Partition Magic, but I havent tried it...

[hellknight]

yeah.. it's working on VMware.. but you'll need a good amount of RAM for that.. 2 GB should do fine

[infra_red_dude]

On a system as Liverpool said, there can be a max of 4 paritions (Primary + Extended). Now its upto you how you choose the combination. You can re-partition your drive and create another Primary Partition to install Solaris.

Solaris requires a primary partition because of the file system issues. It also creates a number of smaller partitions by itself.

[hellknight]

you can try installing it to a USB drive..

[vamsi360]

solaris in my system and laptop is really slow while starting. There are problems even with the sound card but after installing opensolaris 2008.11 all things are fine.

Use opensolaris 2008.11 for practicing UNIX than FreeBSD because the installation is easy.

[esumitkumar]

Originally Posted by hellknight

yeah.. it's working on VMware.. but you'll need a good amount of RAM for that.. 2 GB should do fine

Yup I have 2 GB RAM ..Can you tell me step by step how to install Solaris on VMWARE ? Which version of VMware etc

[hellknight]

Err.. actually i don't have VMWare... i use Virtualbox.. firstly.. make a image of the disc if you can.. it will make the installation much, much faster...

Then start virtualbox.. and click on new..
then select Solaris/OpenSolaris from the menu...
Allocate about 768 MB RAM to it..
and about 10 GB Hard Disk space to it..
then click on settings..
if you have a AMD processor then click on enable AMD-V and if Intel Core series then also click on it..

Now for the installation you can follow these steps