I've been trying out different operating systems from Win, Mac, Linux and I have a Mac G4 and a few PC's, with AMD processes, so I have jumped around. Now I was curious and sent for Solaris 10 to try it out, However it wont boot with my hardware, I tried it with a AMD 64 Sempron PC, It dosen't seem to boot up.
Do I need special hardware? If so what do I need to get started? Thank you in advance.
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Solaris runs on both SPARC (RISC) and x86 (CISC) chips.

You say you "sent for it". Did you get OpenSolaris 10 and if so is it labeled as being for x86 (Intel/AMD) or does it say SPARC? The SPARC processor is different from x86 so the Solaris that runs on SPARC would not run on x86 and vice-versa. You should be able to download rather than send for OpenSolaris.

Haven't used OpenSolaris myself but from everything I've seen and heard it doen't have any special requirements (beyond a minimum amount of memory and disk space that all OSes have).

After looking close at the DVD's I see that one is used for "x86 (Intel/AMD)" Thanks.

Have the Sun Device Detection Tool or Installation Check Tool availables at this page http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/ a try.

Hi jllagre,
After installing Solaris 10 and boot up, I can't get connected to X windows (Gnome),
I have a command line and I tried to use xorg -configure and tried to open file for /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I can't configure X11? How do I configure X? Can't use "startx" command, what next?

You first stated it wasn't booting, what did you do to go further ?

Did you try one of the tools I suggested in my previous posting ?

You graphic card may be unsupported/undetected.

He was apparently using the SPARC DVD instead of the x86 DVD and got it booted on the latter after my earlier post.

Looked up HLC and found my self build MSI with AMD compatible.

It boots in gui to install It shows nice color and it tells me it choose 1024x768 resolution, After reboot it doesn't open in gnome or any other X widows?

Run kdmconfig and select Xsun instead of Xorg. Xorg seems to be the issue, your graphic card isn't auto-detected.

Yes, thanks. I misunderstood Frank's answer.

How should I use kdmconfig? From the command line or use vi kdmconfig?

"man kdmconfig" would have tell you.

Running means execute, not edit, so yes, just type kdmconfig from the command line.

I did run it on cli and command not found, It seems that it doesn't recognize a lot of the commands, Says kdm don't exist, Also it says can't find Xorg,xorg.config and Xserver, yet when I cd and ls it's in the directory, I have been running as root also. Could this DVD be bad or am I doing it wrong?

The full path is /usr/openwin/bin/kdmconfig
"." (i.e. the current directory) isn't in root's PATH, so you need to explicitely prefix a relative or absolute path to these commands.