I am hoping to get to the Sun Studio on OpenSolaris. It would be nice to exercise some code under the Sun compilers as well as the Mac, Windows and Linux ones I already have. The surest way to find portability problems is to try another compiler.
My WhiteBox PC (ASUS P5K) is on the hardware list as supposedly OK. The liveCD works nicely, is friendly and even reads CNN. But after the install there are two immediate problems. 1. The eject button on my CD drive has been disabled so it is useless until software (or a reset) enables it again. So no eject before the reboot. 2. The Boot HDD option seems to go to the first disk even though the installer was quite happy to use a partition on the second disk. So no booting to the partition just installed to. Disk 1 has three generations of Windows so primary partitions are in short supply there. The question is does OpenSolaris ONLY live on the first disk as I was told in comp.unix.solaris or will it operate from the second disk after some amount of fussing? If the first disk is required then I have not been able to trip over that fact as it must so well known that noone bothers to mention it anymore. It would help if the install objected. Or is this just a minor fuss that would be helped along by a Boot HDD#2 option on the CD? Hopefully if control gets to the Partition Boot Record this will work like they do for other systems. In the short run I will use the BIOS setup to reorder the disks but that can not last. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
