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Monday November 05, 2007
Indiana on MacBook
I'm new to the Mac, just got a pretty cool (company issued) MacBook Pro. Downloaded Project Indiana (OpenSolaris Developer Preview) & tried the live cd on my MacBook Pro. It worked like a champ (see proof below)! But I figured experienced Mac Whackers, like ThinGuy or Jim Laurent or JohnnyD, would have tried this before me :).
BTW, the Indiana live cd, login is: jack, password: jack. That's in the release notes.
Posted at 08:25AM Nov 05, 2007 by madhatter in Sun | Comments[6]
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Agree that it is cool running Solaris on a Mac.
I've now installed it under Fusion on my MBPro and it works great.
After initial finger trouble (ThinGuy reminded me to describe vm as Solaris-64 bit) it came up like a dream.
-FB
Posted by Fat Bloke on November 05, 2007 at 08:49 AM EST #
You're right Matt. I have installed it under VMware Fusion. I didn't even think, however to try booting directly from the CDROM. Actually, I didn't even burn a CD.
My next step is to get Leopard install, use boot camp and see if I can dual boot it.
Posted by Jim Laurent on November 05, 2007 at 08:51 AM EST #
I did too, it was interesting. However the range of available packages is preventing it from being my everyday instance under Parallels.
Posted by Shawn Ferry on November 05, 2007 at 08:55 AM EST #
I should mention that the current range of package issues is being addressed now.
As well as the bug that slipped in and broke SVR4 package installs.
I'm going to give it another shot soon, although that might just mean the planned 01/08 release.
Posted by Shawn Ferry on November 05, 2007 at 08:58 AM EST #
Would have been more impressed if you used BootCamp and actually clicked that install OpenSolaris button.
BTW, having to login as jack/jack shouldn't have happened.
Hows the wireless working for you?
Posted by ThinGuy on November 05, 2007 at 09:39 AM EST #
HiJim Laurent,
I am sure to use boot camp can dual boot Mac OS and Solaris. If you want to know more detailed steps how to make it happen, please refer to : http://blogs.sun.com/duanst/entry/how_to_install_solaris_on
Hi ThinGuy,
Since Indiana is based on snv_75a, the wireless driver hasn't integrated into Solaris yet, you may need to download the latest ath driver from http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath/
Hi Shawn Ferry,
I tried Indiana on MacBook Pro, the installation process is amazing, it only took me half an hour to finish.
However, I met the problem that I cannot install other packages. Then I found I hit this bug: pkgadd broken in Preview 1.(http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=110)
I am really looking forward to running Indiana on Macbook
Posted by Fiona on November 06, 2007 at 10:55 PM EST #