Not too bright. I really want to try solaris, but can not get past suns survey page.
The survey asks how many licenses I want and whether I want to install on x86, sparc, etc.
can someone give me a verbose description of how to download the cd iso images? I don't have a dvd burner and prefer cd iso's. I've been trying to get solaris 10 torrents, but no success. I registered with sun, received an email from them, but can not get through the retarded survey Never had to register and answer 200 questions to download any linux distro.. Not even suse.. Any alternative sites to get the freakin cd iso's?

Have you tried Opensolaris? it's free.

Not only OpenSolaris but Solaris 10 and Solaris Express are free too.

Can you better explain at what step you got stuck ?

Several hundred of thousands people have been successfull in downloading Solaris 10 from these pages.

Here's what I mean..

http://www.geocities.com/xmercurialz/survey.htm

I was able to download opensolaris 5.11 live cd. It seems very sluggish on an Asus a7n8x , amd xp 2800 512 Mb kingston pc2700. I tried running it under VMware on winxp, but it balked at the nvidia geforce 4 even after doing an xorgconfig. I installed an old 3dfx voodoo and XFce runs now.
Solaris setup the onboard 3com lan, and properly configured the usb optical mouse with ZAxisMapping. I kinda like it, and would like to install solaris 10 on my hard drive , if I can get the .iso's.. I'm a linux newbie and even newer to BSD style systems, but I messed around with various linux distros enough to poke around and get somewhere.. Thanx for the replies

Why not downloading the more cutting edge Solaris Express - Community Release instead of Solaris 10 ?
I just downloaded build 27, which includes ZFS, and there was no survey to fill.

Thank You.. I did just that.. I was able to download the 4 .iso's and now I'm messing around with build 27. I'm trying to install it inside a virtual machine on SuSE Linux. I didn't accept the proposed disk space allocation of 8 gig , and changed it to 4 gig, and of course it didn't work. Solaris is also griping about the usb host controller being unusable, but that can probably be ironed out by installing the system directly to the hard drive maybe. I'm not too comfortable with the partitioning scheme, because I'm used to the linux naming convention ie. hda1 hda2 hdb1 etc. especially when it comes to using the solaris fdisk. I fooled around with freebsd and was able to hack my way through the procedure, but my mind aint what it never was, so I have to re-read some stuff. From what I've seen of the Live cd Solaris seems nice.. I ran XFce and it was a bit spicey once it got going.. It's responsive... Sorry to babble on so much, but I'm a talker and a gabber.. Once I can tear myself away from my system, I'll go to the local circuit city or staples and get some more cdr's so I can fool around with hard drive install. Thanx again for Your help.

Finally got the solaris express iso's and it was murder to install. After 38 sys-unconfigs the 3com nic is working with elxl0.