SE Thought

Monday October 30, 2006

Will Solaris run on my hardware? I found this simple tool that helps me test the compatibility of Solaris on Dell Inspiron 8500. It's quite interesting to see that the tool even tell which Solaris 10 (e.g. Update 2) is required!

I documented my experience (and an error I encountered, which was promptly addressed by our China team) at http://www.singanix.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=96#96

============ copy from the tool home page ================
Sun Device Detection Tool can tell you in just a couple of minutes whether the Solaris OS supports the devices that are detected in your x86 system.
Sun Device Detection Tool produces a table that shows whether a Solaris driver is available for each device the tool detects. The table tells you whether the driver is built in to the Solaris OS or whether a third-party driver is available.
Source: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html
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