[rescue] decisions, decisions

[erie patsellis]

Really, I use a bunch of those around the house, now where can I obtain 
a copy of solaris (legally)?

erie

Lionel Peterson wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Shannon Hendrix" 
> <shannon at widomaker.com>
> To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 2:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [rescue] decisions, decisions
>
>
>> Wed, 27 Apr 2005 @ 17:39 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo said:
>>
>>> To be fair to Solaris 10, there is no system, so far, that I have
>>> found it refuse to boot on.  Including the cheapie Athlon mobo I have.
>>
>>
>> For me, three tries, three failures.
>>
>> I *HATE* the Solaris x86 installer.
>
>
> Data Point:
>
> I have some nice little Compaq Deskpro EN Small Form Factor machines - 
> Solaris 10 installs fine on them, supporting all hardware natively 
> *except* sound :^( Haven't tried any 3rd-party drivers) - Linux won't 
> install on them!?!?!
>
> It seems, at a minimum, to be a video driver/framebuffer-type issue, 
> the install of Fedora Core 3 was fine when the install started, but as 
> it progressed, the screen ceased to be updated, but by moving the 
> mouse around on the screen, I was able to "find" things to click to 
> keep the install moving forward. Once install was completed, it 
> rebooted to "door stop" mode.
>
> I'm going to install Solaris 10 on the machine and cal it a day - I 
> was shocked that Fedora wouldn't install successfully...
>
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