Microsoft Windows

Set up sufficient disk space for installing the Oracle Solaris release. In this release, Oracle Solaris for the x86 platform uses the new version of the GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB 2). Oracle Solaris recognizes Windows and ensures that Windows partitions remain unchanged during an installation. When the installation completes, and the system reboots, the GRUB 2 menu displays both the Windows and the Oracle Solaris boot entries.

For more information about GRUB 2, see Introducing GRUB 2 in Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris 11.1 Systems.

Solaris 10 OS

The Live Media installer on the cannot be used to install multiple instances of the Oracle Solaris operating system. The text installer, however, supports multiple instances of the Oracle Solaris operating system on the same partition, as long as the instances are on different slices. The Live Media and text installers can be used to replace the Solaris 10 1/06 and later releases on an existing system that has multiple instances of Oracle Solaris installed.

Extended partitions

If you have another operating system on an extended partition, the existing extended partition does not need to be changed during an installation. You can create, resize, or delete an extended partition when you install Oracle Solaris by using either the Live Media GUI installer, the text installer, or the Automated Installer. You can also choose to install Oracle Solaris on a logical partition within an extended partition.