[geeks] Solaris on x86 (was Fedora funky-ness...)

[Scott Howard]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:19:01PM -0500, Francois Dion wrote:
> My IBM 770x was getting a bit slow as my main machine and if I had lots 
> of $$ to burn, i'd probably be looking at an Athlon64 based laptop. But 
> I didn't have to buy a new laptop this year as I got a new Lattitude 
> D600 from $job. Runs Winslow 2000 and Solaris 9 12/03. No support for 
> the integrated Dell WLAN 1300 in Solaris, but gigabit port is supported 
> thru a driver I downloaded on the broadcom site. Works excellent as a 
> jumpstart machine (as long as you have the media on DVD - as of 12/03 it 
> looks like no boot image is on the CD variant).

It's still there, it's just on slice 1 as a UFS filesystem. As you can't
read SPARC UFS on x86, you can't access it from an x86 machine. The only
solution it to setup the jumpstart directory on a SPARC box, and then
just copy it over to the notebook.

  Scott