[ILUG] solaris installation on laptop sony vaio pcg-gr214ep

[Brian Scanlan]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:14:59PM +0000, Feroz F. Basir wrote:
> I'm having some problem to install solaris 8 intel on
> my laptop.

Uh oh!

> Sometimes it stucked for no reason at the
> booting kernel or after chossing the country option. I
> tried many times now and still no luck. I got error
> "page fault" then reboot my laptop straight away.
> Don't have a chance to read all the information on
> screen. This thing happened many times. I just
> wondering if something wrong with my solaris 8 CD? Or
> my new laptop not compatible with solaris at all.

You didn't check?

Solaris on x86 is not developed to be an operating system that'll work
on all x86 machines, especially not laptops.

I'll bet money that it won't work on your laptop because it was never
meant to work on your laptop.

You can check if it'll work on your hardware here:

http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl/

Some cool guy on the internet keeps track of a list of laptops that
people have gotten Solaris working on.

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/x86-laptops.html

> Anybody could give me some advice, please? If possible
> anybody has solaris 8 CD Intel that you could burn for
> me, please?

Well, this is probably off-topic on this Linux list - The Solaris on x86
list on yahoogroups is probably the best place to look for information on
this. Also, the alt.solaris.x86 newsgroup is decent.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/

I'll CC: this to the Linux list to ensure thread death.

Brian.
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