>> quite frankly .. get the CDROM and boot it. Most >> likely it will work well >> enough.
you have written a great huge reply and I really enjoy seeing someone else do that than just me :-) firstly .. I have a nice long reply also but I'm stuck doing some work here. So I'll have to put that off to tomorrow. You have touched my heart however with the very mention of Apollo systems. I started doing programming work, the paid contract kind, back in the 80's on the Apollo machines and like a young man with his first car I loved the DN10000. It was an amazing system at the time. As for Solaris and the whole "does it work here" situation .. the best thing that I have seen in a long long long time that really helps to answer the question is the Sun Device Detection Tool. I blogged about it well over a year ago and it really does a nice job of telling you what you can expect for a given pile of hardware. See : http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/?q=node/74 http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/stuff/SDDT/Untitled-5.jpg http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/stuff/SDDT/Untitled-4.jpg http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/stuff/SDDT/Untitled-3.jpg so there are some pictures that I took with a Windows box here .. it tells me where I stand with both Solaris 10 and Opensolaris. In both cases I don't really care about sound and I do care about ethernet. In either case .. the machine would probably work fine. Dennis ps: I'll write more later .. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
