On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:57:17 PDT Ben Fisher <kurasoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. Solaris 10 Kernel does not work right anymore with pentium 3 processors. It can be worked around but I forgot how. Did it myself on a very old pentium 3 with only 384M memory ;-) > Then I tried OpenSolaris, thinking... well, maybe it's similar > enough. It probably is. Did you try to boot OpenSolaris-2008.5 Live CD first? If it does boot you can run a hardware detection / testing program from within the desktop to see what does or does not get supported. > I popped in a Gentoo Linux 2006 LiveCD. Instantly booted all the > way into the GUI of the LiveCD. Yes, linux does that. So does Windows XP. But this is solaris ;-) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxce snv94 ++
