New to this, so please bear with me. Going crazy trying to install from "Live CD" image (osol-0906-x86.iso), snv_111b.
System is an HPxw4600 Workstation, Core 2 Quad, 2.4GHz, 6GB RAM, NVidia GEForce, Viewsonic VG910b LCD. No KVM in use - Sun USB Keyboard, HP USB Mouse. Network comes up fine via DHCP. Grub starts. Regardless of what option I choose, I get console login. Prior to running fdisk and blowing away the Ubuntu image on the local HD, ran the Detection Tool and all was well. (Documentation bug?): >From the Getting Started doc (http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/getstart/sliminstall.html): *************************************************************************** # Insert the Live CD, then boot the system. Make sure to select the boot from CD option when the GRUB menu is displayed. **************************************************************************** No such option - but any options gets me to the same console login. Tried starting Xorg from console, and it starts but I get no terminals and have to kill X with Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc. Can't run /usr/bin/gui-install - receive the following: ld.so.1: gui-install: fatal: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: unknown file type Killed Which seems mighty strange, since I'm running off the CD (all boot options give the same error). Tried running /usr/bin/gui-install from an X-enabled ssh session, same error (not surprisingly). Same results with all options as user "jack" or as root. Is this "Live CD" buggy? It's gonna be mighty tough to shout down the Linux evangelists here when just about any distro of Linux installs effortlessly on any hardware we have here, but OpenSolaris chokes even when running from removable media. Is there an option for a console-driven CLI install? The current Doc referenced above only offers options (which fail) for a GUI-driven installation. Thanks... *------------------------------------------*-----------------------* | Kevin Davis (UNIX/Storage Sysadmin) | Natick, Massachusetts | | 508.647.7660 | 01760-2098 | | mailto:kevin.davis at mathworks.com *-----------------------* | http://www.mathworks.com | | *------------------------------------------*-----------------------*
