Shawn Walker wrote: > On 20/05/07, Ryan de Laplante <ryan at ijws.com> wrote: >> 1) When installing with the "everything" software group, after the first >> reboot my screen goes into "Unsupported mode". I'm usng an LCD screen >> through a KVM. The graphical installer worked fine before rebooting. I >> suspect the refresh rate is now set too high for my LCD screen. After >> attaching a CRT monitor to the computer, I saw the graphical installer >> had started back up and wanted me to insert disc #2. > > Knowing which monitor you had and what video chipset would help. The LCD screen's manual is here: http://www.sotac.com.tw/image/user%20manual/13&14&15%20VGA%20for%201210P%20V2.1.doc
I had a hard time finding out the brand and model since it's not written anywhere on the hardware! The manual doesn't even mention the company or model name. Well, the company name was written in small print at the bottom right of the book back. The video card is Sis6326. It's a very old video card. I had Solaris 10 installed earlier (end user software group) and had no issues. With Solaris Express CE, using the "everything" software group caused the screen to say "unsupported mode" after the first reboot. > >> I don't see an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. There must be one somewhere? > > Nope, it uses autodetection. However, I think there is a sample > /etc/X11/.xorg.conf file (note tthe leading dot). Thanks I'll look at that soon. For now I've attached an old CRT to the computer. >> 2) I chose to customize the "core" software group. As I added packages >> it warned me about dependencies, and expected me to resolve them >> manually. As I manually resolved some dependencies it created more >> dependencies, etc... I gave up and chose to install the default core >> group. I think this is a major deficiency in the installer. > > A new installer is on the way; but I don't think the initial version > will resolve the customisation issue. Is this it? http://opensolaris.org/os/community/install/mockupScreenshots/ I downloaded the web based demo and was very very impressed!! You guys have done an amazing job with this. I like how I can specify "Server" and check higher level concepts from the software tab. Now I don't have to look at thousands of packages and attempt to resolve dependencies by hand. Will this be used for Solaris 11? >> 5) I'm installing on x86 hardware using a regular US English keyboard. >> The default shell that comes with Solaris doesn't support backspace, >> arrow keys, and possibly more basic but important keys. Why doesn't >> Solaris install bash and use it by default (at least on x86 hardware)? >> Bash works well with my keyboard. > > Because bash is not the same as /bin/sh. Because of backwards > compatibility requirements, Sun can't change the default shell to > bash. You, however, can. > > I'm not sure what x86 hardware has to do with it... I figured you need one of those UNIX keyboards to use backspace in /bin/sh. Those keyboards come with Sparc servers right? I already told solaris what kind of keyboard I'm using during install. On x86 hardware I use a normal 104 or 105 PC keyboard which does not work right. I don't really know the technical details, and have never used a Sparc server before. >> 7) I have a /home and /export/home. I read somewhere that this is done >> by design. You could have user home directories loaded from NFS shares >> and mapped to /home (or something like that). When I create a new >> local user, am I supposed to use /home or /export/home for their home >> directory? Since Solaris creates such a large partition for >> /export/home, I would think that is where it expects me to put local >> user home directories. When I use /export/home, am I supposed to do >> something else so that /home maps to it? This is a bit confusing to >> someone coming from the Linux world. > > http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/02/youre-never-far-from-home.html Excellent, thank you. Ryan
