Solaris Question

[cajunman4life]

Hey guys, I dunno if anyone has any experience with this, but I'll ask anyways.

 

I'll be bringing home a Compaq DL360 (G1 or G2, pretty sure G1) here probably tomorrow. I would like to install Solaris 10 (x86), but I've had problems installing it on some of my other (and admittedly older) machines. For instance, the HP NetServer (which currently runs Gentoo) had problems with Sol10, however accepted Solaris 9 with minimal problems (always gave me some kind of memory error on boot-up, however it ran peachy until I tried to load gnome, where it would lock up so I was stuck with CDE ). Does anyone have experience installing Sol10 on this particular hardware? I know it's far fetched, but any help would be appreciated (even a "good luck" lol). Thanks in advance!

[TweezerMan]

No experience here, but searching for "Compaq DL360 solaris" on Google turns up some results that may be of interest to you.

[cajunman4life]

No experience here, but searching for "Compaq DL360 solaris" on Google turns up some results that may be of interest to you.

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Thanks for your reply! Some of the issues discussed in a lot of the search returns are things that I tried last time when I tried to install Solaris 10 (I swear Google is a SysAdmin's best friend). I will try these things again however, seeing as how this is somewhat different hardware than what I was using before. Wish me luck!

[MikeJ]

Yea, one of the things lacking in Solaris 10 for x86 is a wealth of driver support. But now that they've improved the OS considerably over 9 for x86, maybe we'll see more drivers being created for 10 soon.

[cajunman4life]

Yea, one of the things lacking in Solaris 10 for x86 is a wealth of driver support.  But now that they've improved the OS considerably over 9 for x86, maybe we'll see more drivers being created for 10 soon.

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Perhaps with the release of OpenSolaris we will see more drivers developed... I hope. That's a daunting task when you look at how many different combinations of hardware your standard x86 machine could include (usually servers don't wander too far off the well beaten path though). We'll see...