How Do I Install Solaris?

Well I saw this subforum on Astahost and thought that I would give Solaris a try after all I have Linux installed. I went onto the Sun Microsystems site and downloaded OpenSolaris but I cannot get it to install.

I burned the ISO image onto a CD-R and proceeded to boot into it. At the GRUB bootloader, I chose the first option (the non-text one) and it started booting.

After about half an hour, the GUI came up and it looks A LOT like Ubuntu Linux. The computer was very unresponsive at this time and it took 5 minutes to click on the System menu. Then I tried to find the install button but it froze before I could open up the administration menu. A GNOME error popped up and the system froze.

My question is, does OpenSolaris demand high memory requirements or other system requirements that my computer does not meet? I have Ubuntu and Windows XP installed and I am prepared to make a new partition if necessary.

I also tried booting into the text version but that did not work either. Should I use the Live CD at all or is there another way to install it?

 

 

 

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Do you have at least 512 MB RAM? Check the minimum requirements before installing the operating system.

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Yes I have exactly 512 MB of RAM. Where do I find the list of system requirements? I've looked on several documentations and wikis but I couldn't find it.

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Did you try the "do not use graphics" option ? Maybe you have an old graphic adapter, or a big part of your 512 megs is shared for you graphic adapter, so not available for Unix.

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Yes, I tried using the standard version as well as the text-based console. Both didn't work. By the way, I have 1 MB of shared video memory on the computer I'm using now.

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what graphics adapter do you have?

Maybe it's just missing that 1MB it requires? I have no clue, never installed Solaris before. Most likely it needs that much RAM is because it was designed to be a server OS never as a workstation really.

xboxrulz

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On my newer system, I have 4 GB RAM and plenty of hard disk space. The liveCD still doesn't boot up. I get to the GRUB boot menu and then it freezes there after I select an option. Solaris sounds interesting, but I can't even get the OS to boot!

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Same here, installed Solaris on my laptop and my other pc, both where extremely unresponsive and unstable. I've tried several of their distributions (they've send me 2 DVDs with some distro's on it) and none of them worked descently

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You shouldn't install Solaris on laptops because they don't really have a laptop optimized core nor services making the battery not last as long.

You should install OpenSolaris on your desktop since it's a full fledge Solaris distribution.

xboxrulz

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