Solaris

yes you will never see a disk 2 as long as you only have one physical disk


the 30 Gb partition should be within with disk 0, check to which slice you allocated it


type format

then select disk 0


then partition

then print

it will show you what you have available

I would expect the 30Gb not to be mapped under any kind of root, swap etc, below is the option that comes up after pressing disk 0. how can i get the format command to display the other logical disks, eg disk 0, 1 etc..

bash-3.00# format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1d0 <DEFAULT cyl 2882 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c1d0
Controller working list found
[disk formatted, defect list found]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
/dev/dsk/c1d0s0 is currently mounted on /. Please see umount(1M).
/dev/dsk/c1d0s1 is currently used by swap. Please see swap(1M).
/dev/dsk/c1d0s7 is currently mounted on /export/home. Please see umount(1M).

how many physical disks do you have? 1 or 2? what do you mean by logical disks?

there is one physical disk split into 3 partitions, one running windows xp, other is solaris and the last one is just a 30GB which i reserve for Oracle which i want to install now.

You need to create a Solaris fdisk partition in order to be able to use it.

how can I do this, can you point me in the right direction please.

dude I understand, root and swap are mounted, that's normal

now check the other slices, and see the available space !!

you have 2882 cylinders , see what's available.


i told you, from the format menu, choose the "partition", then choose "print". Slice 2 is the total space available, see how much is left ! you should know how to use the format menu. Google some examples