[ltp] Solaris 8

[Leeman Strout]

Solaris 8 will *sorta* run on a Thinkpad.  First off:  if you want X, you
need XiG's Accelerated X.  Secondly PCMCIA support is absolutely
abysmal.  XiG has some free pcmcia stuff, but I never got it to work on my
A20m following their instructions and having a supported PCMCIA ethernet
card.  You get no APM support.  You get no sound support.  You get no IRDA
support.

I am much happier with Linux on my laptop, and I am a Systems Engineer for
a Sun VAR.


PS: if you do try installing Solaris 8/intel on your box, remember to have
a small FAT partition at the front of the disk that you don't mind
wiping.  For some strange reason, it's required by 8, even if you're
upgrading from 7 (which didn't need it)


Leeman


On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Michael Selway wrote:

> 180 degrees off topic here, but does anyone know whether Solaris 8
> (the free version of Sun's Solaris) runs on ThinkPads?
> (specifically a 600E, 2645-550).
> ----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list -----
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> http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html
> 
> 

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