Does the Solaris 10 installer Fdisk preserve 'unknown' partitions?

Hi there,
I am trying to install Solaris 10 - I have a CD to boot from, but can't tell exactly which release it is - sometime in 2008 I think...
In any case, I am attempting install on my LG laptop along-side an XP installation.
I've been searching for hours and nowhere can I find an answer to the simple question above.
I just want to be sure I am not going to kill my XP install by clobbering it with fdisk.
The installer screen I am talking about looks just like the one you find here:
http://www.blastwave.org/docs/step-059.html
My execution of the installer reveals 2 existing partitions (my XP partition and a little one - size 205Mb which I think contains some laptoppy stuff). Both are labelled 'unknown'.
I left about 30Gb free when I installed XP so I could setup a dual boot with Solaris. The third box in the fdisk installer screen is this empty partition, and is conveniently labelled with 'Solaris' by the installer. The last (4th) partition is labelled as 'unused' and has 0 bytes allocated. I intend to steal a few Mb from the 'Solaris' partition and create a FAT32 partition here...as this seems to be the recommended approach...
Anyhow, if anyone out there can help me out I'd be really appreciative - I think the answer is probably yes, it will preserve them, but I'd like to be certain as I don't want to have to reinstall XP.
Thx in advance.

Hi Paul,
thanks for your response. Windows install disk gives partitioning options - don't think it comes with a fdisk util on its own (as an OS that is) though. I had already left part of the disk unpartitioned when I used the fdisk for the windows install, so I could install Solaris...
In the end I decided to be brave and click next - the answer is that Yes it does preserve them - at least it did in my case. I now have a dual boot system. You can have the points for taking the time to bother with my silly question.
:-D
Have a few other issues to resolve with it now - but at least it's up and running, and I managed to get network connectivity - just not thru my wireless yet - hopefully I'll be able to.
Much fun for me to have - cheers!

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