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Originally Posted by halfpower
What are the odds that I will be able to install Solaris 10 on one of my SATA drives on an Asus A8V? I've heard that Solaris does support SATA drives. I already tried to install it and the only drive I could see was my CD/DVD drive.
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The SATA controller on this board doesn't seem to be supported.
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It might not support my Marvel Yukon network interface for that matter.
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That one is supported by the vendor (
http://www.syskonnect.de/ ) :
SK-9Exx driver for Solaris 10 (x64 64bit Edition
Version: 8.12.1.3, System: SUN Solaris, Date: 03.08.2005
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Would it be wise to install it on an external USB drive?
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Maybe, I never tried that, but assuming your mainboard allows booting from USB, that should be doable with recent Solaris/OpenSolaris based releases..
I had reliability issues with one of these drives, I prefer to stay with USB 2.
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My machine is quiet, and I don't so much like the idea of throwing a noisy IDE drive in it.
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You can still install a silent IDE drive on it ...
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Would it be wise to install it on an old Celeron 500MHz machine with a PCI (1.0?) network interface?
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If there is 512MB or more RAM, that should work.
