Hi solarians !

I am planning to install solaris intel edition 8.0 on my machine..
currently i have redhat 8 & Win XP.( i want to get solaris too on the machine)

my machine configuration is given below

intel p3 @ 450 Mhz

mercury motherboard (intel zx chipset based)

128 mb sd ram pc 100

primary master: Seagate 8.4 gb ( Fully dedicated to windows) , 4 partitions

primary slave: Seagate 40 gb limited to 32 gb bcoz of mboard limitation ( Ist 8 Gb dedicated to linux, 1 g for /home, 6 for / ,650mb for temp 100 mb for /boot & 250 mb swap.

remaining 24 Gb is partitioned as 3 FAT32 of approx 8 gb each but unused.


S3 trio 3d/2x 8 mb graphics card ( vesa compliant)

Yamaha ymf 724 pci sound card

PCTEL 56 kbps internal modem ( no hope of it working on solaris

Samsung 52x cd rom drive.


My questions are...

Is it possible to install solaris onto any of these partitions ???

Will solaris support my hardware ? ; i dont expect sound & modem support, will the GUI be supported, does solaris also use the X environment ?

I heard that solaris needs an entire hdd !, is it true ?..(seems unbelievable)

Is it necessary to create a solaris root file system on the CD which we are going to write the image for installing ?

Will a "cd copy" -ing from a bootable solaris installation cd work ?

Can we use Grub as the bootloader still , does solaris have a bootlaoder similar to grub ?

can any one give any further information abt creating a bootable cd for installation

will the alsa (sound)drivers work on solaris by any chance ?

any further tips on installation?

plz help .. thanx in advance.

I see this post went unanswered for a couple of weeks, if you are still interested, here is my take on a few of these questions.


Installing all 3 on a single station is possible, but quite frankly a PITA. The problem is with the Linux Swap partition ID being 82, which is what Solaris will attempt to install on. There are a few convoluted ways to get around this, but they usually require a re-install in a specific order of Linux and Solaris.

If you are game for that, then what you have to do is install Linux with 2 swap partitions. The first one needs to be large enough to contain the entire Solaris install (single 2+GB partition) then your normal linux swap partition which must be higher on the disk.

After installing linux remove the 1st (large) swap partition, then install Solaris. Solaris will only install on the first solaris partition (id 82) it finds.

I could go into more detail but I figure you have probably decided against it by now. If you are still brave enough, then on to the HW part. You should not have any problem with the HW (aside from the modem). Your video card may not be supported natively, but you can down load the Xfree porting kit from Sun and get that working using XFree86 drivers (Not the whole XFree86 package from xfree86.org).


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Jeremiah

Hi there , thanx for ur reply . i was a bit busy( exams). Can we use grub to boot solaris, linux & win, or do we have to use some other boot loader ? if so plz could u put the entries to be made in grub.conf ?

Offhand I dont remember the Solaris bootloader concidering I just put in on some ultra 5's today.


BTW, CDE is weird. Kind of hard for me to get used to.

I have not had any luck trying to boot Solaris from another boot loader (i.e. grub, ntldr, lilo). I would recommend using the Solaris bootloader, which means that you will need to install Solaris last on the disk. Solaris install doesn't even ask you if you want its bootloader or not anyway.

TazLinux, booting an Ultra 5 is a bit different than on x86. I believe we are talking about x86 here.