Just go to the store, surf to:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html
No need to bother with a CD.
-- richard
Otan Er wrote:
> I want to buy a new laptop but I'm afraid to buy one which is
> incompatible with opensolaris. My dream is to settle on using solaris os
> for my day-to-day desktop usage and for application development after
> project Indiana released the first version. Indiana has no bootable
> product yet but I want to buy a laptop now. Then I thought, if there
> only was a bootable CD that when booted specially on a laptop, it will
> report whether the PC or laptop is compatible with OpenSolaris; and if
> not, it will report what those incompatible hardware components are. It
> should not only report the incompatible hardware components but also
> SUGGEST a compatible one.
>
> With this utility, we can know before buying if the laptop will run our
> favorite solaris distro. It's not only a good utility for the user but
> for the laptop vendors also. Imagine Dell or HP selling their laptop on
> their website with a "This laptop is OpenSolaris-compatible" mark. And
> other vendors will follow and start to sell their opensolaris-compatible
> laptops too. This will boost the opensolaris adoption.
>
> And oh wait, there's more. Imagine this message when I booted the
> "opensolaris hardware compatibility test" on my laptop:
> <snippet>
> Creative webcam model [EMAIL PROTECTED]& is not compatible with OpenSolaris
> because
> there's no driver found.
> But the following similar hardware is compatible:
> 1. Philips Webcam model %^$&*$
> 2. Logitect QuickCam model $%^#&
> </snippet>
>
> If you were from the Creative Technology Ltd. and you read this message?
> You don't want to see your competitors attracting your consumers that
> way, do you? And knowing that the OpenSolaris has already some market
> share, the next thing you would probably do is tell your programmers to
> program your webcam's driver for OpenSolaris and submit them to
> opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org>. The result of this is more and
> more and more drivers for opensolaris distros... WOW, that's nice!
>
> =========
>
> OK, enough justification... I just want to buy a laptop now. Is the
> "OpenSolaris hardware compatibility test on a bootable CD" possible?
>
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