[advocacy-discuss] installation problem on dell sc420

[Rich Reynolds]

Jon -

this is best ask on the install-discuss mailing list...

but, look at this http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp 
page from your windows side for hardware issues..

rich

Jon wrote:
> Hello,
> I am new to OpenSolaris and need some help.
> I downloaded the live cd os200805.iso and burned it on a CD. I am trying to install OpenSolaris on Dell sc420 which should be supported.
> I have two disks on the system one with Windows and the other is unpartitioned which I want to install OpenSolaris on it. When I insert the CD and boot the system I see GRUB gui, I select OpenSolaris 2008.05, after few seconds it goes to console mode and after loading some text on the screen it says:
> Done mounting live image, asking to select keyboard layout and desktop language, reading ZFS config done, asking for username and password which I enter jack/jack
> then command line displays:
> jack at opensolaris:~$
> And I don't know how to continue...
> What went wrong in the installation and what should I do to install OpenSolaris on my system using graphical mode?
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