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Thanks for all the helpful advice so far . I was
finally able to get Solaris 10 installed dual-booting with XP on my Toshiba A-65 using a combination of advice
from this forum, the Solaris for
X86 notebooks at Open Solaris.org page and
the the guy at terabyteunlimited who suggested
that I download burncdcc at their website to render the .iso files that I had
been putting on my bootable CD's readable to the CD drive. I had to temporarily
turn off the level2 processor cache in BIOS to
stop the read errors during installation as well.
The Java Desktop System is even nicer than I thought it would be. Now
my problem is how to create a viable user account. Apparently, due to my
inexperience and some confusing dialog on the set-up options I can only log in
as "root". Workstation name is "unknown". The log-in screen says "Welcome
to
unknown " , and I think I inadvertently chose
the option that makes the bootloader want to boot up on a network. I can still
log in standalone but it takes a long time to get the log in screen. I've been
searching like mad to find the options area where I can change all this and the
Solaris Management Console in the Common Desktop Environment looks like the
right place but haven't had any luck changing anything there yet either.
Also I could't get the console to start up the last few times I tried to
open it. Maybe it doesn't open if you are offline? The only hardware
problem noted so far is no sound. The Windows device lists Realtek AC97 Audio as
the audio device for this machine. I may have to break down and buy a book
or something. Is there a Solaris for Dummies book out there? I just hope I don't
have to re-install the OS to get these configuration changes right. Also I
declined to set up Kerberos on install, not knowing anything about it. Would
this be a factor?
Thanks
Bruce
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