[rescue] OT: Solaris for Intel

[Ken Hansen]

Solaris on x86 is *very* picky about what devices are supported - when I wnated to
run it, I bought a PC set up just for it - used very plain pieces (SCSI HD, rather
plain PCI video card, P/133 w/512K cache) and it worked fine. I think the problem
is most major vendors have an annoying habit of revising hardware for a given
system over the life of a system, so the video cards change slightly, the the
serial ports change, etc.

My system had a #9 video card, Adaptec SCSI, and was an Intel motherboard - very
straight-forward from www.eis.com.

Laptops can be very tricky, but with the package from www.zig.com I think many
laptops can run SOlaris x86 quite well...

HTH,

Ken

Brian Hechinger wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:58:54PM -0700, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> >
> > If you have a herd of Intel boxes and don't especially have (nor desire) the
> > licesnes for NT/W2K, doesn't Solaris x86 make sense?  I'm thinking they'd
> > make good low -end workstations (or at least nifty toys).  Or am I missing
> > something . . .
>
> if solaris/x86 supports your hardware it isn't too terrible, but the HCL for
> solaris/x86 is annoyingly short.  you will have a much better chance of getting
> (Free|Net|Open)BSD/Linux/ to run on your hardware than you do Solaris/x86.
> i've tried to put x86 on boxes that were really rather standard, and i just u
> couldn't get it to work.
>
> other than that?  beats me, i'm an anti-x86 biggot so i don't mess with the
> crap that often.
>
> -brian
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