Solaris 10 is not an exact version, I was expecting "Solaris 10 build 70" or something.

Anyway, you now tell that the only difference between the working config and the last one is the mouse used ? OK with USB mouse, problem with a PS/2 mouse, correct ?

When I'm talking about graphic issues, I mean the whole X11 configuration, with four components, a graphic card, a video monitor, a keyboard and a mouse.

Depending on the Solaris 10 build you are using, you may have the choice to later configure either the standard X11 server from Sun (Xsun) or the one from X.org.

Have you tried to connect the serial mouse to one of the previous machines that works instead of the USB and see if it is recognized (backup the working configuration located in /etc/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig, then run kdmconfig from the console to configure the new mouse)?
Maybe just swapping the mice would solve the problem ...

Thanks jlliagre

how can I find this one ?




Yes

I just knew this from you,,thanks for that.





I will ask about this later.





Do you mean PS/2 mouse, because my understanding to serial mouse the old one female DB9,,,Am I right?,,,or this is different in solaris?

cat /etc/release
You're right. I was meaning the PS/2 mouse, which is by the way using a serial protocol too, but slightly different from RS-232 used by the old DB9 or the even older DB25.
Not sure that makes a difference on the mouse driver side though.
I never had a problem with a mouse under Solaris actually ...

Thanks jlliagre
Then it is similar to Linux, and may be similar to uname -a.



As I expected the problem was not with VGA, it was with mouse, I changed the mouse with USB, it worked fine.

But I noticed some thing (which I had noticed that long time ago), when I chenged the mouse the installation processes were similar to Windows OS, (i.e. they were screens and I was able to use mouse to click next) while when in PS/2 mouse the installation processe were as text and I had to press F2 for next screen,,,,,why?

Now after this test what should I do to with PS/2 mouse for the rest of PCs?


I just want to double check with you, what the recommended size of swap (Is it double zise of RAM) ?because Solaris tells you 512 MB recommended when we create file system manually?



As I told you the mouse that I have got is 2-button mouse with wheel, do you thing this will help us:


{{ (8.13) How do I get my 2-button mouse to emulate 3 buttons?

In Solaris 8, "kdmconfig" will autodetect a two-button PS/2 mouse, so
you may never look in the "change pointing device" section. You need
to go in there, and change it from "PS/2 Mouse (2 Button)" to "PS/2
Mouse (2 Button+100ms 3 Button Emulation)" }}

Linux being a Unix clone, it's no surprise it shares many commands with Solaris.
There's no /etc/release under any Linux distribution I'm aware, but indeed many /etc/<distro>-release.I guess Solaris is defaulting to text mode if it detects the graphic (X11) install won't work.
Try to see if it works like I explained previously (kdmconfig).
There are many factors that impact virtual memory sizing.
Anyway, whatever the O/S, disk paging has a huge impact on overall performance, so my recommendation is to install as much memory as you can afford and avoid paging at all.
A Solaris specificity is that /tmp is kind of "virtual memory disk", so if you plan to use applications that create huge temporary files there, better to give swap enough space. If you have plenty of disk space available (nowadays often the case) you can then follow the recommendations of 512 Meg, 1 Gig or more, but don't believe any relationship with how much RAM you have, the major factor is what you run and how you run it.
If you can't have it recognized, I'll suggest you to buy an new USB mouse ...

Yes you are right, this was my mistake.





Do you thing when Solaris compalins about Pointing Device (in my case it is the mouse) during installation, the problem will be solved, if choose one of these many options:

Built-in PS/2 Mouse (2 Button+100ms 3 Button Emulation)

Built-in PS/2 Mouse (3 Button)

Built-in --------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------

But I do not which option should I choose?

I can't tell, I actually never had a problem with mice.

As told you already twice, you can try out mouse settings by running kdmconfig on the console of running system, better to do that outside installation.

Now if I have got three operating system on the same PC, and I have many PCs all the same brand and model. Is there any procedure and make an image for these three operating systems to be copied to other PC?

Second:

If I have 3 OSs. And Solaris boots by default, can I change the defalut to windows or Linux?

If the disks are strictly identical, you can copy byte for byte one disk to the other, and that should work (licensing issues for Windows apart).
The dd command can do the job.

I don't know how to have the Solaris bootloader not booting itself by default, and even if it is possible at all, but you can install grub on the linux partition, and have it defaulting to any O/S.

How can I use dd command through network, because I have about 30 PCs in the Lab

I'm not sure it is the dd over the network is such a good idea to install Solaris with that much PCs.
You'd better have a look at flash archives, they are precisely made to what you're looking for: booting from NFS, FTP or even HTTP.
See http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817...l414d9i?a=view

jlliagre

I borrowed mouse from my friend PS/2 without Wheel , still I have got same probelm.

Do you think I have to buy only USB?

Surprising me I had installed Solaris (7,8) long time ago with PS/2 mouse(USB still was not common) without any problem or complain.

jlliagre

Do you think the name of image will give any indicator for the exact version?

mine is:

sol-10-b69-x86-v3.iso


I guess b stands for beta.69 stands for build 69

It does indeed.
By the way, you can now download the official Solaris 10 on Sun's site.

It appears that we will all have to wait for a few days to do that! There is just too much traffic on their site (their poor servers are taking a real hammering) and downloading such large iso files is just a tad too difficult even with broadband access. My download rate is dropping to around 5kbps. I suppose we can wait for a few more days, after all.