Wish I'd never bothered trying to install SOL8
807559Jul 12 2001 — edited Jul 23 2001Day 1. Sol 8 arrives in post. Did little dance. Install failed.
Day 2. Tried 13 times to install. Called laptop names. Went to bed in a huff
Day 3. Computer still useless...Hit laptop with a stick. No effect. DVD still unusable for install.
Day 4. Got bigger stick. No change. Case paint peeling, otherwise same as yesterday.
Day 5. Adopted 'Solaris' as swear-word. Laptop running Windows ME <gag>, <choke>.
Day 6. Moving mouse too fast causes crashes. 256Mb of RAM insufficient to run word-processing package.
Day 7. Re-open SOlaris installation packaging...
Day 8. Repeat from Day 2.
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Looking through the postings on this forum, I see I'm not alone in feeling a little frustrated at the pitiful lack of drivers for Solaris.
Basically I'm trying to put SOL8 on a Tiny Mediabook laptop with 128Mb ram and 10Gb disk, 866 pentium processor, CD-DVD.
When I get to the point where all devices have been detected and the Solaris Kernel is being booted, I get the messages:
ata-id-common:BUSY status 0x80 error 0x80
ata-attach:select failed
atapi-start-cmd:drive select failed
WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@1 (ata):
timeout:early timeout
...and then the system re-boots.
Am I really the first person in the world to try installing Solaris on a laptop with a DVD? What a load of junk.
This is why Microsoft are in every home.
Can anyone suggest a way of making my CD-DVD 'readable' ?
It is a QSI DVD-ROM SDR-081, firmware level EFA6.
Ed