Re: Installing Solaris/PC-BSD on an x86 laptop with problems
- From: Geico Caveman <spammers-go-here@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:29:32 -0700
Geico Caveman wrote:
I am a long time Linux user and have an old laptop which runs Debian Etch.
I do not use this laptop anymore, as due to an accident, I had fried the
USB ports and CD-RW drives. Neither work anymore.
What it has an ethernet card and a PCMCIA wireless card. Since I no longer
use it, I was hoping to use it to play a little bit with Solaris (one of
those unices I have never personally played with, even though I used it
for years at work).
I have burnt a DVD containing Solaris 10, but I cannot boot off it as the
drive is dead. I cannot attach my DVD burner via USB (and somehow boot off
that) as the USB ports are also dead.
Is there any way I can install Solaris on this laptop ? This laptop can
boot off its Realtek ethernet card (or so the BIOS claims).
I also have two PC-BSD CDs (haven't played with FreeBSD for years) that I
could install (if solaris cannot work with this). Just my idea of a fun
weekend :)
Thanks to everyone who responded. I guess I will have to defer any
experiments with Solaris until later. I cannot risk any of my production
machines, which are running a mix of Debian and Slackware.
.
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