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
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