<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi! So Solaris installer doesn't recognize Linux partitions well... it gets really confused. You should procede as follows: 1) Install Windows first (if you need Windows) because Windows installer believes the world only uses Windows. 2) Add Solaris next (it will see the Windows partition and preserve it). 3) Install Ubuntu after Solaris. It will see Solaris and preserve it. I've had this run on an Acer Ferrari 3400 (AMD64) laptop fine. Oh... and... if you are going to be playing... dont just use Solaris 10. Try out Solaris Express (the early access of Solaris 11). It has many more drivers included, and in general, on laptops, does a much better job than Solaris 10. URL is : <a href="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jsp">http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jsp</a> Solaris 11 uses GRUB. Solaris 10 early versions didn't. A new updated Solaris 10 (so depends which version you have) also uses GRUB. Solaris puts GRUB on its partition... So just need to make whatever partition you want active. The Solaris GRUB can then boot Linux. It should have entries like this : <pre wrap="">title Solaris 11 nv_42a X86 root(hd0,2,a) kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive title Solaris failsafe root(hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -s module /boot/x86.miniroot-safe title Windows rootnoverify(hd0,0) chainloader +1</pre> <pre wrap=""><tt><tt>title Ubuntu root(hd0,1) chainloader +1</tt></tt></pre> Caveat : I work for Sun -> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Gilles.Gravier@Sun.com">Gilles.Gravier@Sun.com</a> Gilles. VIGNESH wrote: <blockquote cite="midd5bd99f70607060108n49bb8668hf91f0789d816e83c@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">I recently got hold of Solaris 10 and I wanted to give it a shot..I also heard that Solaris cannot co-exist with Linux ! Anyway I tried and messed up my harddisk.Now I have installed Kubuntu 5.10 .This is my partition table vignesh@Konqui:~$ sudo fdisk -l Password: Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 1265 10161081 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1 49 393529+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 50 1265 9767488+ 83 Linux Has anyone tried this.. Pls help.I also have dragonFly,opendarwin,BSD in line after this ! Cheers ! Vignesh -- Registered Linux User : 418463 </blockquote> <div class="moz-signature">-- <title>Signature Gilles Gravier</title> <link rel="important stylesheet" href="chrome://messenger/skin/messageBody.css"> <meta content="text/html;" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <meta content="Gilles@Gravier.org" name="author"> <div class="moz-signature"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <table style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); width: 500px; height: 73px;" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); white-space: nowrap;"> <div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><tt>Gilles Gravier = <a href="mailto:Gilles@Gravier.org">Gilles@Gravier.org</a> = <a href="http://www.gravier.org/">http://www.gravier.org/</a></tt> </div> <div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><tt>ICQ : <a href="http://www.icq.com/whitepages/about_me.php?Uin=77488526">77488526</a></tt> <tt> || </tt><tt>MSN Messenger : <a href="http://members.msn.com/Gilles@Gravier.org">Gilles@Gravier.org</a></tt><tt> </tt>Skype<tt> : <a href="callto://ggravier">ggravier</a></tt><tt> || </tt><tt>Y! : <a href="http://profiles.yahoo.com/ggravier">ggravier</a></tt><tt style="font-weight: bold;"> || </tt><tt>AOL : <a href="aim:goim?screenname=gillesgravier">gillesgravier</a> </tt><tt>PGP Key ID : <a href="http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x8DE6D026&op=index">0x8DE6D026</a></tt> </div> <div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><tt>"Chastity is its own punishment." (Solomon Short) [David Gerrold] </tt>"De toutes les aberrations sexuelles, la chasteté est la plus aberrante." [Anatole France] </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>