NexentaOS in a Partition

My internet connection at home has not been restored. My broadband provider reports that they are in a process of upgrading their system for free speed boost. That’s good to hear, but bad for me at the moment.

So, for lack of anything to do, I pulled out that NexentaOS install cd I managed to download fews days before my connection went down. I was excited.

The install boot screen was impressive. Problem was there’s now way that I know, and capable, of installing it in a separate partition. The partition manager suggests to erase the whole hard drive. Manual partition was even very unfriendly. I have to deal with cylinders. I’ve toasted a hard drive doing this before and I won’t risk my notebook’s hard drive at this moment.

But I’m itching to try a Solaris-derived OS. I’ll see if I can have it installed in a Pentium 2 PC I have lying around the house.