[s-x86] Re: Problem installing Solaris 7 on 14GB Disk

["Jacqueline R. Cooper" <Jackie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Justin,

I was until recently using Partition Magic 4 (before 5 was released) and
every time I opened it or the drive info tool it did some jiggery pokery
with my partition table such that NT would not map my logical partitions to
drive letters.

Each time this happened I had to restore my saved disk configuration (yes I
did do rdisk and disk config save on the box as soon as I the hdd
configured!!!). Because of this (both with the emergency disks and the full
installed native NT version) I decided that doing disk config restores every
time after I had opened one of the PM 4 programs, let alone actually messed
around with the partitions, was not a good idea. The upshot was that I
uninstalled the lot. The next thing I suppose would be to try PM5 if I feel
brave. (I understand that PM4 had trouble with ext2 partitions as PM3 had
trouble with NTFS partitions, and no I did not have an ext2 partition
defined when I had these problems with PM4).

Also this would not help in this situation as the config of my hdd is:

 1 : hda1 C:* type=6  (BIGDOS Fat16), size = 2094088 KB
 2 : hda2    :  type=83  (Linux native), size = 2094120 KB
 3 : hda3    :  free space ready for Solaris UFS, size = 2094120 KB
 4 : hda4    :  type=f  (Win95 XInt 13 extended), size = 7522200 KB
 5 :    hda5    :  type=6 (Linux Swap), size = 128488 KB
 6 :    hda6  S:  type=6 (BIGDOS Fat16), size = 1965568 KB
 7 :    hda7  E:  type=6 (BIGDOS Fat16), size = 2094088 KB
 8 :    hda8  F:  type=6 (BIGDOS Fat16), size = 2094088 KB
 9 :    hda9  G:  type=6 (BIGDOS Fat16), size = 1239808 KB

As I have now learnt it would appear that Solaris 7 x86 will only install
into free space in the first 1024 cylinders (around 7.8Gb) on IDE's which
means in my case before the hda4 extended partition. It would appear that
Solaris will grab the space if there is nothing "above" it as it were, thus
I now reckon I would have to scrap the extended partition and all of its
logical drives. Whilst I do very regular backups and my NT system lives very
much on hda1/C: All of my development tools and other data etc live on F and
G. and I am very reluctant to do this.

I have actually installed Solaris 7 x86 under VMWare for Linux on to a
virtual disk which lives on hda6/S:. That means that I can also run it under
VMWare NT as well. That install worked fine (after a few faux-pas by me). I
am contemplating using this installed Solaris to access a VMWare defined raw
disk and see if Solaris format/fdisk will allow me to grab the hda3 free
space and build a ufs partition that way. I am just worried that I might do
some damage to the partition table that forces me into a full restore (not
something I really want to do).

Jackie


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