[install-discuss] No graphical installer for Sun Ultra 24?

[Sarah Jelinek]

Ryan de Laplante wrote:
>> The offical NVIDIA driver that installs with SXDE should support your
>> video card, but the driver used by the installer in graphical mode is
>> the open 'nv' driver and that isn't updated as often. (It probably saves
>> space in the RAM disk.). SXDE should work fine if you do a regular
>> text-based install without installing the driver in addition.
>>   
>>     
> Last night I ran the text installer and when it finished the built in 
> nvida driver worked fine.  I was really surprised that the graphical 
> installer wouldn't run, but the after text installation it worked 
> fine.   What you just said explains it.   I really hope that the 
> installation team updates the driver because the text installer was very 
> painful:
>   
Well... we can look at this. The miniroot which is what is used to drive 
the installation likely doesn't have the updated version of the driver. 
We can add this. Albert, is this a different package than open nv 
driver? Is there a reason we would need both in the installation 
environment?
> - At around 15% copying files to disk it completely froze up (samba 
> package). After waiting a few minutes I rebooted.
> - This time at around 45% it completely froze up (star office 8 fonts 
> package?) Again I rebooted.
> - The third time it went all the way.
>   
Well.. this isn't supposed to happen. What do you mean by froze up? No 
mouse movement, just hanging, or the appearance of hanging?
> - I was unable to log into Gnome until I first went to a console as root 
> and configured:
>     a) /etc/nodename
>     b) /etc/inet/hosts
>     c) /etc/auto_home
>     d) created /export/home
>     e) created a new user and home directory
>
>   
that should not be the case. If you set a root password, which I assume 
you did, and the other host configuration data you should have been able 
to log in. How did you answer the system configuration questions during 
the installation?
> A lot of that was trial & error, and a lot of googling.  Once I was in 
> things were working, but none of the developer edition stuff was 
> installed, even though I chose the "Development workstation" software 
> group during installation.
>   
Yes, the developer software only gets installed if you use SXDE. The 
SXCE paths, which the text installer is part of, doesn't automatically 
install the developer tools.

> Later I rebooted and chose the "xVM Hipervisor" at grub just to check it 
> out.  It booted my regular solaris, but network wasn't working. After 
> rebooting and choosing the regular Solaris menu item in GRUB I find my 
> network card is still not working.  I did not have time to find out 
> why.  I'll have to look at it tonight.
>
>   
 Sounds like nwam isn't enabled. What does svcs -a  
svc:/network/physical:nwam show?
> It was a bit disappointing to have to go through so much trouble on 
> Sun's own hardware. I bought this hardware so that I wouldn't have 
> trouble with Solaris.  However it is free software and I do appreciate 
> the work everyone has put into it.
>
>
>   
I am sorry that this experience was frustrating. Some of the things we 
are working on with Indiana are exactly these things. You can download 
and try Indiana from 
here:http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/getit/

Regards,
sarah
***
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
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