Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum. I'm running Windows XP Pro. I want to have Windows XP and Solaris 9 x86 as a dual boot but never ever installed it and never made Solaris partitions before actually i never used any type of Unix before. Can someone walk me through this?? I have it on 3 CD's. This is what i did. I put CD 1 in my DVD drive and restart.

I made it up to run fdisk.

1.) Use the default layout
2.) Run fdisk to manually edit the disk
I choose number 2.

Here is the next options:

1.) Create a partition
2.) Specify the active partition
3.) Delete a partition
4.) Exit (Update disk configuration and exit)
5.) Cancel (Exit without updating disk configuration)

Here is the next options and i don't know what to do here:

Select the partition type to create:
1= Solaris
2= Unix
3=Pcixos
4= Other
5= DOS12
6= DOS16
7= DOSEXT
8=DOSbig
9=DOS16LBA
A=x86 Boot
B=Diagnostic
C=FAT32
D=FAT32LBA
E=DOSEXTLBA

I'm totally lost on this. Please reply back as soon as possible. Thanx guys.

hello,
I tried to install the solaris and got confused at this stage.at this stage its showing only windows partitions only .i kept 10 gb as nondos partition and its not recognising.

can any one help me out at this point.

shyam