[geeks] OpenSolaris on T105

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2008/05/09 Fri AM 10:09:44 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] OpenSolaris on T105

>On May 9, 2008, at 10:43 , Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>>> From: Sevan / Venture37 <venture37 at hotmail.com>
>>> Date: 2008/05/08 Thu AM 02:24:43 CDT
>>> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>>> Subject: [geeks] OpenSolaris on T105
>>
>>> Hi Guys
>>> Have any of you managed to install any builds of OpenSolaris on a  
>>> PowerEdge
>>> T105 using a DVD??
>>>> From the brief search around I've done it seems that OpenSolaris  
>>>> doesn't like
>>> the sata dvdrw drive in the system, which I presume leaves me with  
>>> just doing
>>> a netinstall?
>>> So far I've tried b79 & b89 (I think) & both have bombed out on  
>>> startup.
>>
>> When you say "doesn't like the sata drive" do you really mean the on- 
>> board sata controller or the actual drive itself?
>
>It's the controller, or rather the Solaris driver for it.
>
>Solaris Nevada dropped support for SATA optical drives in the new  
>nforce driver.

That's odd...

>It's supposed to come back at some point, might already be there in  
>the newest release.
>
>Makes it a bitch to install on a T105.

I can imagine...

>Solaris 10 u5 works fine because it still has nforce SATA optical  
>drive support.

Wee! That's a relief. I'll have to give mine a try this weekend - I threw Windows server eval on it, but I haven't turned it on for a few weeks, so I guess I should clobber it and start over again with something new ;^)

Lionel