[advocacy-discuss] general newbie woes

[Jim Grisanzio]

angus wrote:
> Well the live cd looked nice so I added a hard disk to my cheapo Acer dual core duo e4500 machine that has 1 gig ram and windows xp pro on the first hard drive and went for the install.  It installed very easily, though Grub installed on the new drive not the xp drive and my attempts thus far to edit /rpool/boot/menu.lst to get xp to boot have been unsucessful. according to xp its installed on hd1 and the new ide drive is hd0, with solaris installed on the first partition of hd0. there's a small system partition before the c: drive on hd1 so presumeably windows should be:
> title windows xp
> root (hd1,1)
>
> other posters mention:
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)  
> but its hard to see how to make an intelligent substitution in my case :(
>
> The other gripe is with nwam.
> The live cd totally failed to find the network with DHCP which just about every other os I have ever tried finds first go;  freebsd, debian, slackware, ubuntu , knoppix live cds all find the net pretty quickly.
>
> Even now its installed it won't find the network automagically.
>
> Anyway I thought lets do it the 'hard' way and learned how to disable nwam with:
> svcadm disable network/physical:nwam
>
> and then used the gnome network applet to configure rge0 my onboard realtek rtl8168 network card.  I've tried static ips, added dns but still I can't even ping the gateway (linksys broadband router) - keeps saying 127.0.0.1 host is unreachable.
>
> netstat -rn
> only shows what localhost is up to.
>
> I then tried getting it to use DHCP, again to no avail.
>
> The marketing comment about OpenSolaris being what Ubuntu wants to be when It grows up is ringing rather hollow...
>   

hello, angus, welcome. I see from install-discuss that you are getting 
some technical help for your issues. Cool. And regarding the Ubuntu bit, 
I wouldn't put too much stock into that sort of stuff. It came from a 
blog or a news article (not sure which). It was well intentioned, but 
the reviews on OpenSolaris 2008.05 have been pretty far ranging and have 
pointed out the strengths and weaknesses. I think you'll find the people 
in here just trying to build a good system. :)

Jim
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