> So, I gave Solaris 10 (11/06) a shot. Solaris barfed > all over me; like a girlfriend you love but who just > can't get it together, it wouldn't get past the > initial display probe and gave me an unintelligible > (read blank) GUI screen.
Welcome to the club! I've had problems with Solaris 10 and my laptop as well. For starters, Solaris 10 1/06 (back when it came out), just plain busted with some bizzare RAM error message flooding my screen. I knew my RAM chips were good because Windows XP Home ran just fine on this laptop, and so did SchilliX, the very first OpenSolaris distro. You tried and threw up your hands in the air. I didn't, because it pissed me off to high heavens. At this point, I knew that the problem was in the installer. Searching the bug database, I saw that the engineers gave up on that particular bug with no conclusive diagnostic. So I built a complete desktop system on my desktop PC, with all the bells and whistles, all the software I wanted, the whole kit'n'kaboodle, and made a Flash(TM) image out of that. Solaris has that technology and it was easy to use. Then I put that on an NFS server, it took one command to create an NFS share, and I fired up Solaris 9 (yes, nine!), mounted the NFS share and flashed the system with a Solaris 10 image I made. And guess what? Solaris worked, flawlessly. That was my reward for not giving up. In fact, I'm typing this on that same laptop, with Solaris 10 11/06 (u3) running on it. Installed over NFS. Works flawlessly, except for the sound, since the driver for my ChipSet hasn't been ported from SPARC yet. I guess when I get pissed off enough at that, I'll look into compiling it on the i86pc myself and backporting it to Solaris 10. Then *everything* on this laptop will work. Point: don't give up, and you will be rewarded. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
