Looks like I forgot to send this to laptop-discuss as well...
>> First point -- it installed a lot better than my previous attempt with
>> Solaris from Sun.com I have a
>> mostly usable system that will work for some of what I need to use it
>> for
>> in teaching.
>>
>> BUT (there's always a but) It would be great if I could get the
>> networking
>> to work correctly --
>> doesn't seem to see the ethernet port -- Linux says that I have:
>>
>> pci.product = '82566MC Gigabit Network Connection'
>> pci.subsys_vendor = 'Lenovo'
>> info.bus = 'pci'
>> pci.device_protocol = 0 (0x0)
>> info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_104d'
>> pci.linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0'
>> pci.subsys_product_id = 8378 (0x20ba)
>> linux.subsystem = 'pci'
>> info.vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
>> info.subsystem = 'pci'
>> pci.product_id = 4173 (0x104d)
>> pci.vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
>> info.product = '82566MC Gigabit Network Connection'
>> linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2)
>> linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0'
>> pci.vendor_id = 32902 (0x8086)
>> info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer'
>> info.linux.driver = 'e1000'
>> pci.subsys_vendor_id = 6058 (0x17aa)
>> pci.device_class = 2 (0x2)
>> pci.device_subclass = 0 (0x0)
>>
>>
>>
>> A few other comments -- as a long time system administrator, I tend to
>> slice and dice my disks --
>> the install program did not seem to allow for any flexibility in this
>> regard.
>>
>> And, while I agree that ZFS is the way of the future, I would rather
>> have
>> had the option of using UFS which is supported in Linux so that I could
>> have stored stuff and used it in either OS.
>>
>> Since I cannot use UFS, is there any way that I can use a small FAT32
>> partition as a means of passing data between the systems? How do I mount
>> PC BIOS disk partitions?
>>
>> Getting the wireless interface and the thumbprint scanner to work would
>> be
>> a bonus. But I'll save them for another day.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for all of the work on a useful system. (A big advantage
>> for
>> me is that it has a real Bourne shell) Since I lecture in system
>> administration, I teach my students to write scripts in vanilla Bourne
>> shell since it is ubiquitous. (And, while I am aware of the advantages
>> of
>> the alternatives, the least common denominator of shells really is a
>> better option, IMNSHO)
>>
>> Anyway, thanks again
>>
>> -Don
>>
>>
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>
> Use the second boot option from the GRUB menu on the CD boot to use the
> old installer (In text-mode) which allows you to slice and dice it.
> Alternatively, you can run the old text-mode installer but only populate /
> and swap, leaving some free space, use fdisk and format (Mainly use
> format, if you've already installed Solaris and have a slice already, but
> if you didn't populate it, you need to run fdisk to take up one of the
> primary partitions)
>
> UFS on Linux isn't really a fun thing, it usually works, but even
> read-only it can have some major problems. Ext2/3 and NTFS are available
> from Belenix, but RW isn't really friendly with NTFS, didn't use ext2/3
> much so I can't tell you how good that is either. Something with too many
> open file descriptors, it hung my system. I'd recommend just using FAT32
> as I show below.
>
> FAT32 mounting -
> mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/? /mnt/point
> Let's say you allocate /windows as a UFS partition with the old installer,
> just format over it with the included ms-dos tools. If /windows is
> /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p1 for instance, you'd use that as the dev node regardless.
>
