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1: === Appendix B: GParted Procedure
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3: This section provides the procedure for repartitioning your disk drive to make room for the OpenSolaris software. The goal of this task is to create a free primary partition which is required for the OpenSolaris software to install successfully. Partitioning the hard drive into smaller fdisk partitions is a necessary step to set up a multiboot environment. Each operating system is installed on its own fdisk partition.
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5: ==== To Repartition Your Disk
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7: 1. **Power on the laptop.**
8: 1. **Determine the current partition size by completing the following steps:**
9: 11. **Choose Control Panel from the Start menu.**
10: The Control Panel is displayed.
11: 11. **Double-click the Administrative Tools icon.**
12: The Administrative Tools window is displayed.
13: 11. **Double-click the Computer Management icon.**
14: The Computer Management window is displayed.
15: 11. **Finally, double-click the Disk Management icon.**
16: You can see the current disk partition size. Note down this information and use it to confirm the data reported by GParted in a later step of this procedure.
17: 1. **If you have not already done so, burn the System Rescue CD.**
18: See [[SourceForge>>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/systemrescuecd/systemrescuecd-x86-0.2.19.iso?download]] and use the instructions at [[www. sysresccd.org>>http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Downloading_and_burning]].
19: 1. **Set the CD/DVD-Rom drive to be the first boot device, and reboot the system.**
20: The Welcome to SystemRescueCd screen is displayed.
21: 1. **Press the Enter key to boot the CD.**
22: After the boot is complete, a list of commands for the different utilities, modes, and documentation appears.
23: 1. **To start the GParted partitioning utility, type the following command:**
24: 
25: {{{
26: root@sysresccd /root % startx
27: }}}
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29: A large window is displayed, incluing a number of icons on the right hand side of the window.
30: 1. **Click on the third icon from the top to open the Gparted Graphical User Interface.**
31: All the available disks are displayed.
32: 1. **Select the disk to be resized.**
33: 1. **Click the Resize/Move button located on the menu bar.**
34: The Resize Partition dialog box appears.
35: 1. **To set the desired partition size, position the cursor at the edge of the green box, hold down the left mouse button and drag the box to the desired size.**
36: The fields below the box indicate the exact size of the desired partition.
37: The recommended partition size for the Slim Installer is 10 GB. For additional information, see [[Managing Disks>>http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2723/devconfig-27900?a=view]].
38: 1. **To save this setting, click the Resize/Move button within the dialog box.**
39: The Resize Partition dialog box is closed.
40: 1. **To begin creating the new partition, select the disk you want to partition.**
41: Position the cursor on the selected disk and right-click the mouse and click on New from the popup menu.
42: 1. **Choose Linux-swap from the Filesystem drop-down menu and click the Add button. Click Close to close this window.**
43: ----
44: **Note - **Linux-swap is the same partition ID that Solaris uses. During the Slim Installation, in the Disk partitioning step, you will be able to change this Linux-swap partition to a Solaris partition.
45: ----
46: The Create Partition dialog box is closed.
47: 1. **Click on the Apply button to confirm and apply the pending operations.**
48: 1. **After the Progress bar reaches 100% and the "Operations Completed Successfully" message appears, click OK.**
49: The Progress dialog box is closed.
50: 1. **To exit GParted, choose Exit from the File menu.**
51: The main screen of the Gparted utility is displayed.
52: 1. **Open a terminal window to exit the Gparted utility and reboot the system. To open a terminal window, click on the fourth icon from the top. To reboot Windows, type the following command:**
53: 
54: {{{
55: root@sysresccd /root % reboot
56: }}}
57: 
58: ====== Troubleshooting
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60: If Windows does not boot, restore the operating system by loading the g4u CD and typing the following command:
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62: g4u > slurpdisk //IP address// imagename.gz wdo
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64: Where //IP address// is the IP address of the FTP server where you saved the image, imagename.gz is the name of the backup file, and wdo is the disk you want to restore.
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66: At the prompt, type the password for the install user account.
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68: Windows is restored to the whole disk and the partition you created with QTParted is overwritten.
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70: ====== Next Steps
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72: If Windows booted successfully, click the Installation tab for further instructions about how to install the OpenSolaris software on the new partition.
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74: Previous: [[Appendix A: nwam(1)>>Project caiman.slim_install_GetStarted_nwam]].
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76: Next: [[Appendix C: Parallels>>Project caiman.parallels]].
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