Martin, I did not mean to imply that Windows had a Live product. What I was referring to is that while installing Windows, there is a point at which you may insert a manufacturer supplied diskette for drivers for hardware that is not supported by the media you are using (for example, you may not have drivers for some SATA disks, or other mass storage device, or a video card). It is supported by the installation process.
If Solaris/Open Solaris offers that ability without re-mastering the disk or stopping the install to go off and do a manual process, then please, educate me. The whole purpose of this discussion list is information sharing and people like me join to learn. Regarding device driver support, again, I am not knocking Solaris. But the fact is that Solaris is way behind on supporting new hardware, not necessarily due to their fault -- after all, few manufacturers devote the time to supply UNIX drivers for their hardware -- but because we often have to wait for some 3rd party person to build one. As I said, it is not my intent to start an OS holy war -- but sometimes you need to acknowledge that there are some drawbacks to using Solaris, regardless of whether it is a better OS than "Windoze"... Mausul. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Bochnig [mailto:mar...@martux.org] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:48 AM To: Hay, Mausul W Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting? On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Hay, Mausul W <mausulw....@xerox.com> wrote: > I have to agree with Russell on this one. Not to start an OS war here, > but this feature has been available on Windows for years and they have a Which feature? That you can add a driver into a running LiveCD system? I wonder how this can be supported by and under MS-Windows, when we take into account that no supported MS-Windows LiveCD product even exists. I suggest you to visit the docs section. It is not a problem that you are new. The problem is which "conclusions" you draw. Please do not take it personally. But objectively speaking, I'm a bit confused. > much broader support for devices that does Solaris/Open Solaris... Is > there an architectural reason why it could not be done? If you consider Wintel hardware_and_tightly_bound_software packages and Microsoft's dirty policies an "architectural" reason, then yes. Developing drivers is a complex and expensive task. Most hardware vendors only pay the money to have Windows drivers developed for their products, blame them. Plus of course Microsoft for their "practices" (Have a look at www.maxframe.com/DR/Info/fullstory/techtie.pdf and > http://www.maxframe.com/DR/Info/ .) %martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
