Hehe, UNIX....Yeah Right!

[JoLLyRoGer]

So...

Short version of a long story. Sometimes a good kick in the butt is what we need to show us where we really stand...

Got home from work today and coundn't wait because I scored an x-86 version of Solaris 9. I figured yeah... No more Linux, I've got a full blown UNIX OS now. Figured that it shouldn't be too hard to install that along side Windoze. So I promptly resized a partition with PM 8 and installed OSL2000 over it. Figured that this can't be too tough. I'll have this up in an hour or two.

yeah right! Never even made it though the install. It KICKED MY A$$. So I decided that I'm not ready for the big leauges yet. Guess I'll just have to crawl before I can walk. So now I'm happily buzzing though an install of SuSe 8.0.

Little did I know that W2K Adv. Server DOES NOT like to share with other OS's. So I dusted of a closet PC and decided to keep it pure with Linux.

Oh well. Some times it doesn't even pay to try!

 

[oniq]

Solaris on x86 :|

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Well crap. My NIC card didn't load right. The one I had wasn't listed in the install so I picked one I thought was close. Dammit. Now I've got to figure out how to fix it and get the right driver installed!

 

[samgau]

Solaris is a pain in the ass... we have an old sparc 1E... decent machine, lots of ram... but after installing Solaris9 on it and trying to patch it, etc... we gave up... patching is hard, the gui is horrible and its slow as hell.... so now our box is happily running openBSD...