Mark J Musante wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008, Shawn Walker wrote:
>
>   
>> However, even if the depot server is distributed, I believe the 
>> installer works by performing a cpio operation to copy the files to the 
>> target install location.
>>     
>
> So, if the required drivers don't exist on the live cd, then there's no 
> way to get opensolaris to work?  Without NDIS he can't get on the network, 
> and without the network he can't install gcc.  Classic catch-22.
Similar problem here. After installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 on my 
laptop(XPS 1210), the network card didn't work(no driver for bfe) and I 
don't have wifi around. The lack of compiler makes it not possible to 
build the driver myself, even I had the source tarball of bfe driver in 
a USB stick. I finally found a place with wifi and installed sunstudio 
with pkg. It seems that I have to make a sunstudio install package 
backup on a USB stick.

-Alfred
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