On 19/06/07, James Mansion <james at mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote: > Managed to get the install done eventually. Its blown away the grub > that Feisty put down > without asking me where I wanted its grub to go, but that might be > expected I suppose. > Would be nice if it had asked or made it easier to select (maybe I > missed something?)
It would have to anyway since other versions of GRUB don't know how to boot Solaris right now. So, there isn't much point in asking really other than to be nice I suppose. The changes needed to GRUB haven't been integrated upstream yet as far as I know (though the source code is available). > I think the installation technology is a big weakness. I know there's > Cayman to address > installation, and I know there's some fuss over how to scope a > 'reference distribution', but > really I think if anything it is much more important to make it really > easy to install Solaris into > arbitrary primary or extended partitions and unformatted disk space, > without destroying > existing boot setups, so that its accessible to more casual > investigation. I have a real > need to test some code on Solaris so I've persevered, but its not been a > productive use > of my time so far. As you said, there is a project to address installation needs, be patient. If you are testing code that Solaris customers are running, you should be running Solaris Solaris 10 Update 3, not Solaris Express. Some of the bugs you encounter are the result of using a developer build, others are simply that right now, Solaris supports specific hardware configurations well and others not as well. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
