[SunHELP] Solaris on Dell

[Jeremy RJ Towers]

I am sorry that I cannot help, but you aren't alone, i saw exactly the 
same problem on two different Dells's just like yours.

Regards

Jeremy

03/03/2002 14:26:03, "Mars Filander" <marsfilander at hotmail.com> 
wrote:

>Hi,
>  I have the same problem installing Solaris on a Dell Laptop, did you 
get a 
>solution? Please tell me :-)
>Mars
>
>Your post: http://lists.sunhelp.org/pipermail/sunhelp/2001-
May/010378.html
>
>Greetings,
>
>  I am trying to install Solaris 8 (1/01) on a Dell laptop. (Latitude PIII
>450, 128MB, 20GB) I read in the Solaris x86 FAQ that I could not use 
the Web
>Installer because I had exisiting partitions on my HD. I can boot from 
the
>Software Disc 1/2. After selecting interactive installation I see:
>
>Configuring /dev and /devices
>WARNING: pcic_init_assigned: can't find available property for 
pcmcia
>
>WARNING: pcic_init_assigned: can't find available property for 
pcmcia
>
>Using RPC Bootparams
>
>Then the installer asks me to "Select a Language."
>No matter which number I press the installer starts printing some
>(seemingly) random character to the screen. After about three lines of
>characters have been printed to the screen they stop and the laptop 
starts
>to beep. (I think the keyboard buffer gets filled)
>
>If anyone has any idea how to fix this I would appreciate the 
information.
>
>Please respond directly to me as I am not subscribed to the SunHELP 
list.
>
>Thanks,
>James
>
>
>James Crow
>
>
>
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