Thanks for the info.
I tried the issued Opensolaris 2009.06 CD media with Fujitsu P8010 and Dell
15n/1545 I personally and it would not install. It installed ok on the HP
s3123w desktop which I own.
In a few weeks at Fry's I can retry the Toshiba A605-P210 on display with the
CD media. I am on
I need the Toshiba A605, because it has Win, the battery life that LP/LV/WLED
affords, the small size, and it's 1/2 the cost of the Toshiba R600.
Why, pro camera s/w uses Win/Mac not Linux/OpenSolaris. I travel alot with big
lenses & several pro digital camera bodies. I carry everything on my ba
I need the Toshiba A605, because it has Win, the battery life that LP/LV/WLED
affords, the small size, and it's 1/2 the cost of the Toshiba R600.
Why, pro camera s/w uses Win/Mac not Linux/OpenSolaris. I travel alot with big
lenses & several pro digital camera bodies. I carry everything on my ba
Scott Rotondo wrote:
Kewl Eugene wrote:
I meant the R600 (not R500) and A605 share the same PDF manual.
The Toshiba R600 is $1600 with OpenSolaris. If you shop around you
can buy a Toshiba A605 for $800. That's alot of sushi ;-) The specs
are all the same. *Apparently* they both use the
Maybe I'm doing it wrong. What I did was
1) Boot the OpenSolaris 2009.06 media I got at the O'Reilly Open Source
Convention a couple of weeks ago on my HP s3123w Amd64 Desktop.
2) Installed OpenSolaris onto a Sandisk 4GB USB Drive
3) Tested the Sandisk USB drive and it successfully booted from
Then I'll look for a R600 Win factory refurb that pops up for sale periodically
on eBay for I recall $1050-1100. I see the U305, and U205 are on BigAdmin which
I don't own. Until then I''ll have to use Ubuntu 9.04 which isn't so bad with
Gnome.
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I went back to Fry's Sunnyvale this afternoon. On the Toshiba A605-P210 I was
NOT able to boot OpenSolaris 2009.06 USB. I was able to boot Ubuntu Jaunty
Jackalope 9.04 x64 USB. I tried several other Toshiba notebooks and none would
boot OpenSolaris.
I will next check the forums to see if the T
I meant the R600 (not R500) and A605 share the same PDF manual.
The Toshiba R600 is $1600 with OpenSolaris. If you shop around you can buy a
Toshiba A605 for $800. That's alot of sushi ;-) The specs are all the same.
*Apparently* they both use the same board.
I want to run Mentor, Synopsys, et
Anyone boot successfully OpenSolaris on Toshiba A605 notebook ?
That's the 3.2 lb version of the 2.5 lb Toshiba R600 that is sold with
OpenSolaris. But the A605 is 1/2 the price. Searching around, the A605 and R500
share the same PDF manual. BigAdmin does not list the A605. I went to Fry's and
