Sandip Chakraborty wrote: > >From a seminar in our university organised by Sun Microsystem on Solaris, I > >became interested on this OS . I've solaris 10 installation DVD. But I've > >some problem while going to install it. > > 1. I've Windows XP and Fedora Core 7 in my system. I've two HDD of 80 GB each > ,let hdd0 and hdd1, Both OS are installed in hdd0 . In hdd1 I've my personal > documents which I access from XP. Now I want to install Solaris 10 in place > of Fedora 7, keeping all other windows partitions in hdd0 and hdd1 unchanged. > The windows file system I've is NTFS . Now while I going to install, it shows > some unrecognized space of 20 GB in hdd0, and remaining is DOSEXTLIB space . > There is no Linux space shown. I want to install the Solaris on that space > allocated for linux. How can I find it ? > So, how big is the linux partition that you have? Is it linux swap? Is the 20GB of unrecognized space the linux partition? > 2. At initial network configuration before installing , I've failed to > recognize the terms used there. I've 100 MBPS Ethernet LAN connection, and in > my LAN windows configuration, I've the following : > IP > Subnet Mask > Gateway > DNS > Alternate DNS > > how can I configure network in Solaris with this data ? > > The installer will guide you through this. Basically you want to answer: -Networked -Hostname -Subnet mask -Default router(gateway) -DHCP for host ip-assuming you have a DCHP server. Otherwise input a static address. -None for the nameservice question, I would think, unless you have NIS, NIS+ or LDAP which it doesn't sound liek you have.
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