On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Hay, Mausul W <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin, > > I did not mean to imply that Windows had a Live product. What I was > referring to is that while installing Windows, there is a point at which > you may insert a manufacturer supplied diskette for drivers for hardware > that is not supported by the media you are using (for example, you may > not have drivers for some SATA disks, or other mass storage device, or a > video card). It is supported by the installation process. > > If Solaris/Open Solaris offers that ability without re-mastering the > disk or stopping the install to go off and do a manual process, then > please, educate me. The whole purpose of this discussion list is > information sharing and people like me join to learn.
Ah, ok, that's a valid point. Well, Solaris 8/9/10 and SXCE do have this feature. OpenSolaris the distro (Indiana) currently doesn't offer it. It also doesn't offer a text mode curses based installer (e.g. for serial console installs). I'm sure it is on the agenda. But resources are tight. For asking install specific questions, see caiman-discuss at opensolaris dot org. > > Regarding device driver support, again, I am not knocking Solaris. But > the fact is that Solaris is way behind on supporting new hardware, not > necessarily due to their fault -- after all, few manufacturers devote > the time to supply UNIX drivers for their hardware -- but because we > often have to wait for some 3rd party person to build one. It is not so bad anymore. Through Xorg all new gfx chipsets are supported almost in real time (see update snv_108 which includes Xorg server 1.5.3 / 1.6.x is already under development by Sun's X11 group plus via the OpenSolaris FOX (FullyOpenX) Project. Except for exotic things. And if in doubt you can port over drivers from other communities such as BSD or LinUX. %martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
