Hello: I am trying out Opensolaris. I had been familiar with Unix through FreeBSD. I received the Opensolaris Live CD through the Sun Free CD program, and I was trying to run Opensolaris.
I have Dell Dimension E521, with an added PCIe Nvidia 8600GT, which overrides the original onboard video chip. The NIC chipset is Broadcom 4401, which needs third party driver. I have checked the hardware compatibility, and I am trying to install the driver. I downloaded this driver from: Download "bfe" driver for Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX device from: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/. I copied this driver to an external USB hard drive, which is FAT32 (microsoft file system). This hard drive is attached to a USB port before I rebooted. After I rebooted from the Opensolaris CD, I become the user "jack," whose role is "root." I am not sure which device in /dev is the external USB hard drive. I tried to "mount -F pcfs" a non-zero-byte entry in the /usb and I was told: "not owner." I have googled the internet; I have bought and read the removable media part in "Opensolaris Bible." I still cannot get things to work. Can somebody please walk me through? I need to be spoon fed for now. Thank you very much! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
