> OK, I've tried the floppy disk and CD-ROM versions of
> that driver disk, and it mostly works on my system.
> By mostly I mean the the floppy version works on a
> VM, but not when I boot from the SXCR build 52 DVD on
> my actual PC. The CD-ROM version does work on my
> actual PC though, so that's me sorted.
> 
> Is the problem I had with using the floppy disk
> version a known bug?

Not sure how the floppy ITU is failing on your PC.
Can you give us a few more details how it fails?

When Solaris is installed (or when you boot into a single
user shell from the installation media), does it see a 
floppy device /dev/rdiskette and /dev/diskette ?

Is it possible to read from the floppy media, e.g. with
"dd if=/dev/rdiskette of=/dev/null count=36" ?

Is it possible to identify the filesystem format for the
floppy media in the drive, using "fstyp -v /dev/diskette"?


If the floppy media isn't accessible through the /dev/rdiskette
device, it could be:

- you're using an usb floppy device, which isn't supported for floppy ITU media

- bug 6312400, "ps/2 floppy is not enumerated when acpi is disabled or not 
supported"
  http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6312400

- bug 6294851, "Some system boards incorrectly detect floppy controller as 
needing FDCMODE_30, fail to detect change"
  http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6294851

- ... maybe yet another bug ...
 
 
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