From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 05:35:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7BC16A4DE for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:35:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74D843D49 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:35:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.7/8.13.7/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k855ZDcK009107 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:35:15 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k855ZYNO083585; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:35:35 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k855ZTTQ083584; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:35:29 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:35:29 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: backyard Message-ID: <20060905053529.GH81402@gothmog.pc> References: <20060904225259.30179.qmail@web83115.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060904225259.30179.qmail@web83115.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.816, required 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL -0.22, BAYES_00 -2.60, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Bill-S , freebsd-questions , "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Subject: Re: solaris X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:35:31 -0000 On 2006-09-04 15:52, backyard wrote: > I would recommend the second drive option. Me too. Not for the same reasons though. > I have attempted installing Solaris 10 on multiple computers and all > if ever seems to do is corrupt the drive on me. Once I got it to boot > up and go into their version of X windows. After installing the Bonus > pack with KDE and such never turned on again. Very frustrating. > > good luck, I've given up until I have a Sun Box to play with. I have installed Solaris 10 on *dozens* of systems at work. Very few of them were real Sun hardware and there has been exactly *one* case where something went wrong. It turns out this case was *my* fault. The only case when Solaris can be a pain to install is when you try it out on a system with hardware that is not supported by the drivers shipped with Solaris. Even in those cases, some times just adding one of the supported NICs, or a VGA, or booting from ATA disks and using SATA disks only for extra storage, can really work wonders... Solaris 10 is a wonderful system, it works flawlessly for various tasks that I use it at work (I prefer FreeBSD for my home systems), and the people who answer questions on comp.unix.solaris are knowledgeable, (usually) kind, and cool. So, please, don't be so hasty in accusing "Solaris" for problems you have had until now ;-)