woo-hoo! thanks so much - that worked for me! i needed the "grub hackery" - my box won't boot from a dvd - it only supports a pxe boot. a little lower in the link - it also discusses "grub hackery" for opensolaris. i had thought about using ssh to run the installer - but "ifconfig -a" only showed the local loopbacks, so i kept looking for a text installer. but knowing that remote ssh would work, i had to download some drivers: http://www.joostm.nl/solaris/vr/latest/ and install them using a usb stick like the "grub hackery" link pointed out. i did a "cd /media/usb-stick" and "pkgadd -d via-rhine-ethernet-1.42.pkg". for the vr install to run, i had to "mkdir /kernel/drv/amd64", and even so the install complained that it had failed - but i had a /kernel/drv/vr, so i continued on. i did the "add_drv" from the "grub hackery" link and then did a "dladm show-link" to see the 4 ethernet ports. after a while, the ethernet ports configured themselves, and vr0 got the same address via dhcp that was used in the pxe boot. after that i followed the remote ssh link that you sent me - and the installer is running now.
woo hoo - thanks again for taking the time to help me- -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
