Hi, I'm looking to install Solaris (either openSolaris Developer Edition or Solaris 10) on my laptop.
It is a custom-built (but guaranteed for Linux) system based on an AMD Athlon Mobile 3400+. Currently, it has OpenSuSE 10.2 (64-bit) running. I have an empty 9.9 Gb ext3 partition that I could use. so, I have a few questions for the community... 1) Any thoughts on Solaris 10 vs. openSolaris Developer Edition? 2) Any experience with hardware, both in terms of laptops and in terms of AMD64? 3) I'm not too hot on the idea of messing with the partitions, mainly because it's taken me a year to get the config on this laptop the way I want it, and I don't currently have the architecture in place to do a full backup of the 80+ Gb of data on the drive. Have many people had issues with doing such a repartition? 4) Is it possible to do an install to an external drive? (I guess this would be USB or FireWire)? Thoughts on speed, ease of installation, etc.? How about the possibility of trying to find a PCMCIA SCSI card and running an external SCSI drive? Thanks for any input, Jason Antman This message posted from opensolaris.org
