I've decided to give Solaris 9.0 x86 another chance, since I'm bored and I'm coding Java daily, and for that, Solaris is great .

I've just a few questions:

1 - How to I access/mount the floppy disk through solaris? I've checked /dev but nothing seems to be able to work. At /mnt is empty .

2 - And Megaman X says, let there always be bash... This is not a real problem, but I would like to know how could I do to get Solaris to always, always use bash to when I run the terminal. The thing is, always when I fire up the terminal, I've to type bash to get auto-completition and other neat stuff. That's is not so bad, until I type su... because then I've to type again bash to use completition as root. After a while, this gets quite annoying.

3 - Solaris asks for too many information about my network. It's quite simple, all I have(examples, indeed):

IP : 101.110.226.556
DNS: 232.262.57.2
Alternative DNS: 232.262.57.2
Gateway: 101.110.226.1
Netmask: 244.244.244.0

But Solaris asks for way more. Pv4, Pv6, Name protocol, DNS host, and god knows what more. I understand nothing -1 about network either.I want to try to reconfigure it again, but I don't know the Solaris tools for it, neither I want to re-run reconfig at the boot time to try it again. Is there any tool/File I can edit/use to remake my Internet setup?(P.S: I have no idea if my network card works with Solaris, but apparently, it does...).

4 - Still lost with Hardware install/detection. My computer is very dated, but everything works fine. The sound card does not though. No big deal, since I won't play any sound in that machine. But I wonder how can one go by making my sound card to work under Solaris (as well as other hardware) since Solaris does not uses modprobe (modprobe won't work)...

Any help with those would be great.
Thanks in advance

1) Use the the /dev/fd devices to mount. vold doesn't work with floppy devices.

3) Select no name service when you install. The question list is much shorter. Then go back and edit the appropriate files.

Megaman,

1 - Here's a Sun document on mounting floppies, using both the automounter and the old fashoined way (manually) http://au.sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/r...mount%20floppy

2 - I can't remember if bash comes with Solaris 8, I downloaded and installed my Bash package from sunfreeware. You'll find that it's probably installed in /usr/local/bin.
Its a pain in the arse but unless your root slice contains /usr (old disk configurations never did, it used to be on a seperate slice) I wouldn't do it.
The reason being if you have a problem and need to boot to single user mode the /usr slice might not be available. the root shell is normally in /sbin/sh because /sbin is on the root slice.

3 - Hum without trying to worm round all the config files you need to change you could try this : sysunconfig.
It will remove all your configuration settings from the system and reboot it. When it re-starts it will basically go thought all the installation questions, but without having to re-install. Also any data should be ok, remember to backup anything anyway before a major job
4 - No idea sorry never worked with solaris on X86 only sparc.

wow, thanks guys. Pretty quick answer here . It does not look like many peoples are trying Solaris x86 out, at least not in this forum, so it was kinda of a surprise. I'm thinking seriously about getting a sparc though.

Thanks again, I will try it out those tips now