Hi, i am trying to install from osol-0906-x86.iso onto CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 620 Quad-Core mainboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2H AM2 GLAN RAID. with on-board graphics.
The boot process ends up in text console mode. "Console login service(s) cannot run" "Enter user name for system maintenance." (I can enter jack and become superuser.) I found this description how to install by remote X display http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/getstart/tsboot.html This imposes the problem that i do not understand man ifconfig enough to set up the interface for accessing the widely open system via LAN . ifconfig -a shows only lo0 ... inet ... lo0 ... inet6 ... But there is an ethernet attached and SSH works fine when FreeBSD or Ubuntu Linux are booted. How do i get the LAN interface running with a particular IP address (v4) ? Is there really no way to install on a machine where Solaris cannot use the high-res graphics, other than opening the unprotected system to the network ? The intended job of the installation is to port libburn to Solaris and to bring the Solaris "driver" of libcdio to the newest capability level. So i will need LAN and SSH but no GUI desktop. I would also install a Solaris based distro if it has the same SCSI transport interface as Open Solaris. (A DVD image with complete GNU software development would be nice.) Any proposals are welcome. Have a nice day :) Thomas
