Re: deleting a primary partition (soalris) and installing linux instead

[adrian15]

Ian Brown escribió:
> Hello,
>  I had installed linux (Fedora Core) and then solaris on the same disk.
>     The Grub of solaris took over, and I can dual boot both
>     to linux and solaris. The solaris partition ("bf") is the
>     primary partition.
>     Now I do not want the solaris any more on this hard disk.
>     I do want to install another linux on this HardDisk, Debian, and I 
> still want
>     that the Fedora Core will remain.
>     As far as I remember fronm the past (I tried something
>     like it),if I will not delete the solaris parition, and
>     start the linux Debian installation there will be an error
>     (something like "cannot allocate partition table" while installing).
>     So my question is:
>     Is it ok to delete the Solaris partition (using fdisk) and
>     start the debian installer ? Will the debian installer take over
>     and recognize the linux partition ?
>     I simply afraid that something will mess up because the solaris
>     partition is a primary partiton, and as I unerstand , now the MBR
>     of GRUB is in it.
>     Any ideas?
>
> Ian

Can you please post a fdisk -l ?  I'll tell you the right instructions
you should do.

In my opinnion you should install FC grub on FC partition boot sector
and then let Debian install himself on the solaris partition and after
the installation add an entry to boot Fedora Core... or better even the
FC grub.

adrian15