Jim, > I've received the CD containing Open Solaris. It's full, containing 685 Mb. > It contains no file with "setup" in the name, and no "install.exe", > although several folders contain "install" in their names. I've also > downloaded the whole thing (685 Mb) as an ISO file. The PC is an > emachines T5026 with 2 Mb of RAM installed, running Windows XP Pro. I have > a C drive with 30 Gb, 11.5 of them currently unused, a D drive compact > flash with 8 Gb of capacity and 3.97 Gb currently unused, and an E drive > with 30 Gb capacity and 22.8 Gb unused. I want to install Open Solaris on > the E drive, with a choice of Windows or Solaris to operate with. How do > I do this? I've seen no straightforward installation instructions, and this > list is no help whatever. How do I proceed? Am I even asking the right > people? >
As has been said, it is a LiveCD, and thus will just boot and work; with the option of installation onto a hard disk. Another very viable option is to use VirtualBox, which is now owned by Sun. I run Vista (spit!) on a laptop, and have an instance of opensolaris running in a virtual machine. It works very well indeed for my requirements. Go to www.virtualbox.org and download. The only real trick is to make sure you tick the box to ensure that the CD/DVD is mounted as the host drive before trying to boot the OpenSolaris CD in the virtual machine. Regards... Sean.
