> > I received 2008.05 open solaris live cd for > x86/x64. > > Quite old... >
I see. Sun shipped this free CD and I dont really have bandwidth to download 100s of MB. > 2008.11 is current. > > And development builds of 2009.06 are already > availale > (http://www.genunix.org/) > > > > I tried on my new HP Pavillion DV9000 laptop. > > How much physical memory is installed in this > laptop? 3GB recognized though I think its 4GB. > > > > I created a NTFS 25 GB partition names solaris and > > thought to write over it with Solaris. > > > > The install process is not progressing. I tried > few > > kernel options but of no use. > > Where exactly is it hanging? It prints text. does not even get far to give GUI. Not sure exactly where it hangs. Actually it does not hang but restarts/reboots. > > Does it start the gnome desktop from the live cd? No. > Does it hang in the gui installer? At what > percentage mark? Not applicable. > > Is it possible to start a terminal window? If yes, > what's the contents of the file /tmp/install_log ? Dont know how and when I can do this ? Max I tried is to get a grub prompt. any thing I can do there ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
