Hi, > I am currently working on a project that involves installing Solaris 5.8 (8) > on a Dell Power Edge 4300.
Ah, the memories... > The problem I am running into is that solaris does not want to recognize the > hard disks. Assuming that I have the vintage right, then the PE4300 has a PERC/2 or some such. You'll need to get the driver separately. I think that was a megaraid, from AMI at the time. So you need the megaraid driver (search for something like "AMI megaraid solaris driver"). The driver download should contain a 1.4M floppy disk image, and a dos executable that allows you to write that image to a floppy disk. At some point early on in the boot from CD (before it goes into Solaris proper) you'll get a menu that has something about driver updates, so you need to select that and stick in the floppy you created earlier. I think you may have to do the same again at the end of the installation before you reboot. I built a lot of systems like that, but it's been the best part of a decade since I did the last one. Good luck. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
