Hi Jayakara,
Jayakara Kini wrote: > I was trying to install Solaris on a student's laptop with LightScribe DVD > drive. > It started giving the menus, but then gave up saying no DVD drive found. I > don't remember the exact error message. > Could you please provide more information about behavior you encountered ? Which version of Solaris are you trying to install - Developer Express Edition (build 70b) or other release ? Which menus did you actually see ? Were you able to boot to the GRUB ? In which point did the boot process fail ? What error message did you exactly see ? If you are using Solaris Express Edition based on build 73 or 74, you might be hitting following issue: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6600169 The fix is delivered in build 75. > Another student told me that he had tried installing Solaris on a couple of > other laptops with LightScribe DVD drives and it had failed as well. > > The installation went through fine after connecting an external DVD > (non-lightscribe) drive to the same laptop. > > Is lightscribe DVD drives supported for installing Solaris? If not, is there > a plan to support them? > Unfortunately I have no LightScribe DVD at hand, so I can't verify right now, but I would say that in general there is no reason why these DVD drives wouldn't be suitable for installation. Best regards, Jan > Regards, > Kini > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >
