On 7/29/07, Moinak Ghosh <moinak.ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > Folks: > > > > I exchanged my old Dell Latitude D620 for a new one (7200 series - 64 > > bit CPU with Core2Duo and VT support in the BIOS + CPU). > > > > I've tried all of the following: > > SXDE b64a (modified - Moinak gave me this) > > SXDE b64a (downloaded from Sun) > > SXCE b68 > > SXDE b55 > > > > On all of the above, the install-discovery script goes into a long wait > > mode. > > > > This looks like a repeat of an old problem. Just try installing in > text mode. > Text mode is available if you select Solaris Express in the Grub screen > rather than SXDE. Text mode is also faster. > > BTW you are better off with B69. B68 has a Gnome bug that causes garbled > characters in gnome-terminal. >
This bug is present in B69 too.. and is slated to be fixed in b70. The workaround is to use xterm. Anil
