Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Swtching from Windows to Solaris

2005-10-11 Thread James C. McPherson
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Casper H.S. Dik wrote: The installation scripts really only care about ethernet, disk and the console (graphics, keyboard, mouse The problem is the installation routine does not recognize many ethernet cards that are on the Solaris HCL. Perhaps Alan (DuBoff) would care to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Swtching from Windows to Solaris

2005-10-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 10/8/05, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 October 2005 07:48 pm, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Alan DuBoff wrote: snip I will try to find time to re-install Solaris Express 23. Now, come to think about it, I believe what happened was that, when se23 did not recognize

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Swtching from Windows to Solaris

2005-10-08 Thread David Schanen
On Friday 07 October 2005 07:48 pm, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: The fact that Solaris is different from Linux, and that it requires a steeper learning curve, may actually be advertised as an advantage. (Read: an elite OS) Easy may not play well with business users. OTOH a default Linux

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Swtching from Windows to Solaris

2005-10-08 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Saturday 08 October 2005 09:33 am, David Schanen wrote: No one is truly qualified to speak on how easy or difficult Solaris or GNU/Linux is outside their specific domain of experience. Everyone is entitled to speak for themself on how difficult they feel either are. This is all opinion

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Swtching from Windows to Solaris

2005-10-07 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Alan DuBoff wrote: snip I will try to find time to re-install Solaris Express 23. Now, come to think about it, I believe what happened was that, when se23 did not recognize either of the NICs on my machine, it decided to bypass the network config step (in that I was not prompted to enter

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Swtching from Windows to Solaris

2005-10-07 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Friday 07 October 2005 07:48 pm, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Alan DuBoff wrote: snip I will try to find time to re-install Solaris Express 23. Now, come to think about it, I believe what happened was that, when se23 did not recognize either of the NICs on my machine, it decided to bypass the