Partition prevents solaris 10 installation

I am trying to install solaris 10 on a multi-boot system with Win XP and SuSE 9.2 Linux.
During the installation I get the
WARNING: A Linux fdisk partition was found on this disk (c1d0), which is the default bootdisk. Having a Linux fdisk partition on the same disk as a Solaris fdisk partition is not supported. ....
Then Solaris wants to overwrite the whole disk.
My partitions are:
1. primary partition NTFS with Win XP
2. extended partition
2a. NTFS
2b. FAT-32
2c. Linux swap
3. primary partition reiserfs with SuSE 9.2
4. free for Solaris
Would it help to use ext3 instead of reiserfs?
Thanks fo any suggestions!
Jean

Hi troterbatti,
did you get your problem solved? My multiboot box looks
like yours (more or less). I've got the same error message.
Playing around brought me to the panel where I could
'fdisk' the disk. Done. But the final panel told me that the
Solaris install intends to delete the other partitions :(
So I gave up ...
Any hint how to proceed or workaround?
regards, Michael

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