> > I believe my errors are disk drive related.  The
> > errors are different, but at each instance the OS
> was
> > unable to find files or hit some corruption
> problem.
> > I am using a Samsung sp2004C disk (STAT II), it
> was
> > s not usable in SATA II mode with any OS (windows,
> > Suse 9.3, Solaris), but finished the installation
> > when set to SATA I.   I moved SUSE and Windows to
> a
> > western digital SATAII drive and everything works
> > fine.  I will have to move Solaris as well. 
> 
> So, you have the SATA controller configured for
> (P)ATA emulation mode?  AFAIK, current Solaris
> Express
> / snv releases do not support SATA controller in
> native
> SATA mode.

OK, this answers my questions.   I did not set my drive to PATA emulation mode. 
I will give this a try. 

> > HOWEVER, Solaris 10 build 22 does  not see my
> Nvidia
> > gigabit NIC.  The Solaris site says I need to
> install
> > the package SUNWnge.   Where can I find this
> package?
> > I looked all over the Sun.com site and cannot find
> > d it.   Is is available on the opensolaris site?
>   It
> > is not obvious to find packages. 
> 
> Build 22 should already include the SUNWnge package.
>  The
> [i]nge[/i] driver is bound to the following two pci
> devices:
> 
> % grep nge /etc/driver_aliases
> nge "pci10de,56"
> nge "pci10de,57"
> 
> Does your nic hardware use one of the above two pci
> device IDs?

The software never booted so I was unable to checkout device information.
I will reinstall with PATA emulation and check.
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