Hi Edward,
Pop in the second <i learn> disc. There are learning
materials/starter kit docs and flash demos that walk you through
installing SXCE.
cheers,
steve
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:58:37AM -0500, Edward Diener wrote:
> I received a free OpenSolaris Starter Kit from Sun at a conference they
> held in Atlanta. I subsequently went to the OpenSolaris site assuming I
> would find instructions on how to install Solaris Express Community Edition.
>
> Someone goofed. Amidst all the excellent material presented on the site,
> the one thing I could not find is how to install the OS. I know it must
> be there somewhere, but to bury the information, which seems to me to be
> easily the first thing which a viewer should see, is not the way to
> interest new users and developers in the OS. Maybe members of the
> community should rethink the site design.
>
> Nonetheless I am still looking for documentation on how to install
> OpenSolaris Community Edition. Since I have multiple OSs installed on my
> computer I need to make the disk space and partitions available in which
> to install OpenSolaris Community Edition in order to run it. I know how
> to do this for my computer and since I have System Commander as my
> multi-boot I have no doubt I can also boot OpenSolaris Community Edition
> once I install it. So my question is: which partition(s) types does
> OpenSolaris Community Edition need or allow ?
>
> Can I install into a small boot partition which is not the MBR ? Can I
> specify a separate root and home partitions ala Linux ? What partition
> type(s) does OpenSolaris Community Edition use ? Can OpenSolaris
> Community Edition read and write to Linux ext3 partitions ? Can
> OpenSolaris Community Edition read from NTFS partitions ? Is there any
> documentation anywhere on the web, hopefully on the OpenSolaris site
> somewhere, which gives this information ?
>
>
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