> > PS: Take a quick look at these two cost effective > > systems, each with > > 4Gb of RAM built by Bob Palowoda at: > > > > http://www.fiver.net/misc/solarisamdbox.html > > Those machines looks good, except for the use of > Maxtor hard disks on the first one. I would > personally substitute Western Digital Raid Edition > (RE) drives, or failing that, any other disk > manufacturer. I don't trust Maxtor. >
Oh come on Andrew. I gave that example of those two boxes as the cheapest way of getting away with good performance with Opensolaris. I have been around long enough to know that specific hardware models of components have different life cycles. I've even seen a 140meg Maxtor drive live for 12 years. I swear the bearings must have turned to porcelain. I do not expect everyone to follow my hardware examples. What I do expect is reasonable discussion about why a certain menu option about a model of hardware is presented to a user during the install process if it's not possible that the software cannot determine the type of hardware it's running on. Case in point if it is Grub that could determine the old type of hardware running on a BIOS serial port is their no why of altering Grub to detect it? That is if it is a Grub issue (which the Solaris Grub is a forked version and changes are not applied upstream) can it change to detect it automatic? What about other Phenoix BIOS options in other vendor machines that offer serial port installs, how are they handled? It falls in line with the users experience with the install process. I might ask questions about Belenix or Nexenta not giving the option for specific LX50 or V60 machines. Or is this just the only way to generalize the hardware detection options during the install and present the menu. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
