From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 6 19:59:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9268916A4DD for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:59:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xj2106@columbia.edu) Received: from brinza.cc.columbia.edu (brinza.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.29.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2967443D45 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:59:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xj2106@columbia.edu) Received: from presario.homeunix.org (dyn-pupin-171-80.dyn.columbia.edu [128.59.171.80]) (user=xj2106 mech=PLAIN bits=0) by brinza.cc.columbia.edu (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k86JxDdb000232 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:59:18 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060903223518.f92a2112.dick@nagual.nl> <20060906215014.W1218@www.pukruppa.net> From: Xiao-Yong Jin Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:58:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060906215014.W1218@www.pukruppa.net> (P. U. Kruppa's message of "Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:52:51 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: <86u03kwyvd.fsf@presario.homeunix.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-No-Spam-Score: Local X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 128.59.29.8 Subject: Re: solaris X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:59:19 -0000 "P.U.Kruppa" 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 -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo---