Tnx u for reply.
I'll go for opensolaris.
I do hope it's compatible with my current hardware.



-----Original Message-----
From: James Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:59 PM
To: Vu The Cuong
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] can I run solaris express

vuthecuong writes:
> Thanks for following my thread and reply my question. 
> Now I'm downloading the community express ones.
> 
> In fact, I already gave it a try about 6 months ago.
> Of course I knew that unlike linux that can be installed at extended
partition, solaris must be installed in primary partition,

That's currently correct ... I know there's a project working on this,
but I don't know the status.  "Extended partitions" are strange
beasts.

> but right from first booting for installation, I remembered that after
dialog (with red border) showing that it was extracting runtime JRE or
something like that (I not remembered exactly), the installation hang
forever :(

That *sounds* like it might be a BIOS problem of some sort.  I've seen
reports of other platforms with problems like that in the past.  If
you run into similar problems (or, really, any problems), do post
here, and someone with experience in that area will likely speak up
with some suggestions.

> At that time I was too busy with other works so I gave up soon without
asking forum about solution. What's a shame of my efforts :)
> Now I would like to give it a try again and post questions here if I
have probs.

Sounds good.

> The info that P5LD2 worked with opensolaris convinced me.
> Just one more confirmation. Does community express version always the
latest 
> build, right?

Yes; that's the latest and greatest Nevada build from Sun.  There are
other distributions that are based on OpenSolaris, though, including
Indiana (an experimental one from Sun), Nexenta (an independent
GNU-flavored one), SchilliX, BeleniX, and MarTUX.  Pointers are here:

  http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Distributions

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