Hi,

I've used linux for few months now and know my way with it somehow. I'm trying to expand my knowledge to a new area of Unix. I've chosen Solaris as it has gotten quite few recommendations on the net.

My problem is that I can't get it installed on my system. It has few ways of doing this.
One is that it freezes when detecting devices.
Second is that it might detect my devices but starts to complain about my ata4
Third, I got it installed on my plain IDE drive when I removed all partitions from it beforehand. After installing and trying to boot it to it. It started to complain again about the ata4 drive.

Any idea can I get past this? It might be because of my hardware isn't compatible with the solaris. I checked the database and it seems that DFI isn't mentioned in there.

My HW is:
AMD 3800+ X2
DFI Lanparty UT Ultra-D
2048MB DDR 400Mhz
7800GT GeForce
2 x Western Digital SATA / SATAII drives (Windows + several linux distros)
1 x 40Gb IDE (Solaris)

if you can't find anything about your disk controller/sata drive, you may have to install solaris on a different machine or remove the component that is making devfsadm complain/freeze. First though, make sure that you have looked everywhere for drivers for such hardware. If you can't find it, think about using a dedicated system for it.

I have concluded that Solaris isn't then compatible with my Motherboard and/or my SATA drives. I was expecting it to work though

Well, I'll try to migrate to Linux->Unix with FreeBSD. I got it installed once but didn't know what to do with it.

By the way, Is solarises requirements correct that it needs 256mb of RAM to work? I was planning to put it on my old server machine (366Mhz Celeron, 96mb RAM)? FreeBSD's requirements are 8mb of RAM so I was just thinking.