>Al Hopper wrote:  
>
><I had to disable ACPI in the BIOS before I could load it.>

This is strange, because ACPI should work much better than before

>Wish I had seen this sooner.  I re-installed nv23 on a Turion64 notebook.  
>This time, I was prompt
ed for network data (i.e., NIC was recognized by the installation routine), but 
encountered "instal
lation failure" wrt Discs 2 & 4.  Really didn't know what to do, so I proceeded 
with the installati
on anyway.  The end results are: (1) the screen was instantly locked during 
booting when nv23 moved
 into GUI mode (i.e., right before the login screen); and (2) my XP partition 
was corrupted (was ab
le to boot, with GRUB, into the Windows partition, but XP won't start).

ATI graphics, perhaps?

How did you boot with grub?  You will need to use "chainloader".

>(1)  How do I update Solaris 10 software?  What are involved in the $120 
>barebone upgrade package?

smpatch.

>(2)  How do I configure tcpip in Solaris? DNS client?
>
>The second question is important in that the installation scripts seem to 
>recognize much less hard
ware than are actually supported.

In what sense?  The installation scripts really only care about ethernet, disk
and the console (graphics, keyboard, mouse)

Casper
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