Problems installing Solaris 10/11 on Dell XPS210
Hi,
I have recently acquired a Dell XPS210 desktop machine on which I was hoping to make a contribution to the OpenSolaris community. I have spent 5 days trying to install 4 different flavours of Solaris, all to no avail. These are:
Solaris Express Community Edition v11 build 67
Solaris Express Community Edition v11 build 66
Solaris Express, Developer edition 2/07
Solaris 10 11/06
The Solaris Express Development Edition Install Check (1.1) tool give me the following output which should indicate that I should be able to perform a successful install in console text mode:
VendorDevice: Type NameSolaris Driver: 32BIT 64BIT
-
ATI Technologi...VRV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series]YY
Intel CorporationN82562V 10/100 Network ConnectionYY
Intel CorporationU82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoll...YY
Intel CorporationU82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Control...YY
Intel CorporationU82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Contro...YY
Intel CorporationM82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio ControllerNN
Micronas Semic...MUnknown deviceNN
Intel CorporationU82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Control...YY
Intel CorporationU82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Control...YY
Intel CorporationU82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Control...YY
Intel CorporationU82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Contro...YY
Texas InstrumentsFTSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controlle...YY
Intel CorporationS82801HR/HO/HH (ICH8R/DO/DH) 6 port SA...YY
Driver Notes:
Y - Solaris Driver Found; T - Third Party Driver; N - No Solaris Driver
Device Types:
V - Video; S - Storage; N - Network; M - Multimedia; F - Firewire; U - USB;
Notes:
1. This system is likely to install Solaris Express, Developer Edition 5/07.
Check the list abovefor driver availabilityfor identified devices.
2. This tool is updated frequently to include additional device support. Please
check the following web site to ensure you are using the most current version ofthis tool: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check_sx.html
With Solaris Express Community Edition 11 build 67, I do the following:
1) Choose the second GRUB option "Solaris Express"
2) Choose option 4 "Solaris Interactive Text (Console session)"
I then get this output:
Using RPC Bootparamsfor network configuration information.
Attempting to configureinterface e1000g0...
Skippedinterface e1000g0
ERROR: Cannot find install software, Exiting to shell
#
I have tried installing under VMWare Server on a separate machine with the same physical DVD media and get beyond this stage so the DVD I burned looks good.
If anyone know's what's going wrong, I'd love to know! This is getting very frustrating indeed.
Cheers,
Tim
Message was edited by:
Tim-Jim
