[xlbcali420x]

First of all i would like to wish everyone a good evening. I have a good friend that works at Sun Microsystems in Mexico. I spoke with him about a job and he said its not a problem getting me in, but I have to learn Solaris as quickly as possible. My dilema is this: i have an HP Media Center PC, and have never had success in making multiple partitions in the past, it just doesnt let me. If i buy a new hard drive, would i be successful in installing Solaris on my current pc? Or should i just put together a new pc and not even bother trying to install it on my current one? Any help you can give me would be most appreciated.

[Mak213]

Hello,

Yes it is quite easy.

How to dual-boot Vista with Linux (Vista installed first) -- the step-by-step guide with screenshots

Just use that guide. It says Vista but it will be the same with XP installed first.

Cheers,
Mak

[xlbcali420x]

Mak, thank you so much. I have one last problem, my pc is running xp pro media center edition 2005, so there is no option to shrink the partition in disk management. I tried using partition magic, but my os doesnt give it the permissions needed to resize. Any other software you can recommend, or is there any other way i can resize my current partition?

[Mak213]

Hello,

Gparted might be your best answer. It is a LiveCD and you boot from it. No interference from Windows at all.

SourceForge.net: Files

Version 0.3.3 is the version i use. Might be useful to you as well.

Cheers,
Mak