Friday March 30, 2007
Partitioning and SXDE installation
I installed Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) after partitioning my Toshiba Tecra M5 and now I have Windows XP and SXDE 2/07 running on my laptop. To partition the disk , I used GParted, a partitioning tool, part of the System Rescue CD software(basically, Linux-on-a-CD). You can download the SysResCD ISO file from here.
Burn the iso image onto the CD, change the BIOS settings on your laptop to boot from the CD,reboot your system and you are ready to start partitioning. I used Image Burn , version 2.2.0.0 to burn the image. There are many such freeware tools for burning images to your CD incuding Nero and Burn 4 Free. It took me about 5 hrs to create a 30 Gb partition.The GParted software does say that the process may take a long time depending on the size of the partition being created,but I didn't expect 5 hrs!
I installed SXDE from a CD. You can download SXDE for free from Sun's website or even get a free media kit with SXDE and a modern desktop environment for Solaris,Java and Web 2.0.
The SXDE
installation is very smooth, the entire process was completed in about one hour - it took 45 minutes for the SXDE to install and about 20 minutes
for Sun Studio and NetBeans install.After
installation,the system is rebooted automatically . Remove the CD from the drive. The GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader,which is a multiboot loader) menu automatically lists the
available Oses that you can boot from.
The SXDE installation guide is available here.
Posted at 02:49PM Mar 30, 2007 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun | Comments[2]
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