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The installation stops with the message "Slice extends beyond end of
disk".  As far as I can tell, it is referring to the extended
partition which the installation should not be changing.

Win95, WinNT, Linux are all happy with the partition table.  Solaris
is not being asked to change the size of any of the existing
partitions.

What is it complaining about?  Has solaris miscomputed something
(perhaps an off by 1 error)?  Is there any way to get past this point
without sacrificing what is on the existing partitions?

The solaris fdisk and the linux fdisk also seem to disagree about the
current layout of the disk.

  Partition                 Linux                     Solaris
 -------------------------------------------------------------
NT partition                1-204                   Start at 1

Solaris partition         205-468                   Start at 205

Extended partition        469-787                   Start at 468

In the solaris fdisk program, if I delete the solaris partition then
add it back, it is now listed as starting at 204 instead of 205.

Quote:>I have been trying to install solaris 7/x86.  I am installing in a
>partition that had been used for Win95.  (I changed its type tag to
>82, to make the partition available to solaris).
>The installation stops with the message "Slice extends beyond end of
>disk".  As far as I can tell, it is referring to the extended
>partition which the installation should not be changing.
>Win95, WinNT, Linux are all happy with the partition table.  Solaris
>is not being asked to change the size of any of the existing
>partitions.
>What is it complaining about?  Has solaris miscomputed something
>(perhaps an off by 1 error)?  Is there any way to get past this point
>without sacrificing what is on the existing partitions?

After backing up data for safety, I did the following:

        Using linux fdisk, delete all logical partitions
        and the extended partition.

        Install solaris in the partition I had intended
        for it (a primary partition I had tagged as
        type 82).

        Boot linux from floppy.  Run fdisk.  Recreate the extended
        and logical partition in exactly the same places that they
        previously occupied.

As far as I can tell, no data was lost.  The solaris install
software seems to have been misinterpreting something.

Having successfully installed solaris, I am now back to
running linux, although I occasionally reboot to solaris.

Before the solaris system will be usable, I must

        install gcc (done)
        install gzip
        install less
        install teTeX
        install rcs
        install procmail
        install perl
        install zip
        etc, etc

One of the reasons a lot of people are choosing linux for their
desktop, is that it comes ready to use, whereas solaris is more like
a do it yourself kit.