Hello, I am wondering if anybody has had an success getting EITHER OpenSolaris or Solaris 10 to work on an old(er) server system? One not on SUN's HCL list (I know that's redundant), which means anything remotely old-ish.
I am a Linux admin, and I am wanting to teach myself Solaris as well. I decided to put Solaris 10 on my old server, which is a U1 Gateway 935 series, which has 2x Intel P3 1GHz, 1GB Memory, SCSI, I believe 20GB drive, SCSI CD-ROM, etc. I first tried Solaris 10, as that is what I wish to learn. If I were to ever work on Solaris in the context of my career, that is what it would involve. We booted to the Copyright messages on all three of the boot options, and no further. I'm guessing that basically means initrd with through and that's about it. Instant crash... lockup. Then I tried OpenSolaris, thinking... well, maybe it's similar enough. It probably is. I was elated that it moved past the Copyright message, on to the hostname setting, and then over to loading the CD contents to, I'd guess, some sort of temporary filesystem or into memory. I let that run a few minutes before I gave up. It locked up there, again with sudden zero keyboard response. I thought - well, it's been a LONG time since I put anything new on this server. Let's try something else to make sure it isn't a problem with the machine itself. I popped in a Gentoo Linux 2006 LiveCD. Instantly booted all the way into the GUI of the LiveCD. I'm quite depressed... I'm sure a newer system it would have a lot less problems with, but that's not an option. Just to check, Solaris 10 CD booted on my desktop OK. I'm open to trying anything (on my old server) to see if I can get either my Solaris 10 CD's (preferably) or OpenSolaris 2008.05 CD to boot properly... if there are any ideas out there. Thanks for your time, Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org
