I need some help for my first Solaris installation. I want to install Solaris on the first IDE Disk on my computer. But I have already installed Win2k on the first partition and Linux on a logical drive on the second partition at the end of the disk. In the middle there are enough free space for the primary Boot and Solaris partition (11G) but when I run the Webboot install program will fdisk the hole disk c1d0. How can I tell the install program to use only the free space of the disk and leaf the Windows ntfs and extended ext3 Partition untouched? Thank you for any hints.

solaris partation, and linux partation have same part ID. install solaris first, and then linux without a swap partation.
sun part and linux swap part have the same part ID.

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Thank you, but this is not the problem. Because my SWAP Partition is on the SCSI Harddrive at a logical drive (Linux /dev/sdd5), that is not recognize by Solaris. (If you install Linux after Solaris Linux will –normally- format the swap-Partition and kill Solaris ;-))If I start Solaris I can build the Solaris partition without problems, but when I continue Solaris wont to format the disk c1d0 (all data at the disk will be lost!) and not the partition c1d0p2. So is it possible to format c1d0p3 and the x86 start Partition c1d0p2 manually? (UDF Format is known – FreeBSD!)

Alternative I could install Solaris at the SCSI disk c0t8d0, but how to tell the installation program that this is the default boot disk. To change the boot drive in the bios has no effect, default boot drive and installation target of Solaris is c1d0.

Thank you for some hints (hope I have use the right Solaris disk dev)