> Background -- I'm new to playing with SXCR releases on x86 / x64, as prior > to this I've been on Sparc and there I do network installs and LU > > I just got a new Dell Latitude D620 and figured I'd > install b54 on it. If I boot off DVD without any options, I just get the > spinning cursor (|/-- -- you know the one) for literally hours > > If I boot off DVD and give it a -v, I get > > Using install cd in /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 > Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information. > Attempting to configure interface bge0... > Skipped interface bge0 > Setting up Java. Please wait... > > and there it sits, for over an hour now.
Maybe the box is running out of memory, while trying to install the jre to the ramdisk root filesystem. How much memory is installed in that box? This message posted from opensolaris.org
