Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:58:46 -0400 From: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: solaris Message-ID: <86u03kwyvd.fsf@presario.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20060906215014.W1218@www.pukruppa.net> (P. U. Kruppa's message of "Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:52:51 %2B0200 (CEST)") References: <20060903223518.f92a2112.dick@nagual.nl> <20060906215014.W1218@www.pukruppa.net>
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"P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> writes:
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, dick hoogendijk wrote:
>
>> I have a 3-part disk:
>> (a) XP for games
>> (b) FreeBSD-6.1 (my main OS)
>> (c) FreeBSD-6.1 (a backup)
>>
>> I want to replace the third partition with solaris 10, mainly for
>> studying this OS. I burned the DVD. Will it install solaris on this
>> third partition without trouble? Will I be able to continue to use the
>> FreeBSD bootloader or do I need to isntall sol's grub?
>>
>> The documentation on SUN and solaris is huge. Many many pdf files..
>> Are there better ways then these pdf's? Good books on solaris 10?
>> Starting points on the net? I ask here because I know lot of you guys
>> here have also installed solaris 10 (at least I remember seeing it here)
>>
>> Hope to get some advice and reading points. I have years of experience
>> with linux and FreeBSD and like to explore new (OS) challences.
> Just out of interest: Did you install Solaris in the meantime?
> ;-)
To me, device drivers really troubled me a lot. Windows for games is
okay. But Solaris doesn't work well either in my laptop or my
desktop. FreeBSD is only happy with my laptop, which now I work on.
So I install Linux in my desktop, which is my main OS. LVM2 on top of
raid works perfectly. And I like the portage system in Gentoo, which
resembles FreeBSD's ports system. Sorry for this OT, but I really
think Solaris is not ready yet for my crapy hardware.
Xiao-Yong
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