Back again

If you're wondering why it went quiet for so, my old Toshiba Tecra S1 finally died completely, the screen no longer works. As I had no laptop to play on there wasn't much to write about until now. The replacement is a Macbook Pro (I like the dual core 64 bit processor with 2g, plus the size & general quality of the construction.) Getting Solaris x86 to run on it was a bit of a challenge, but after following the instructions at:

http://good-for-nothing.org/page.php?17

I was able to get it going. At the moment wireless doesn't work (even though the Atheros chip is support) but the ethernet does so it's not a great drama and the screen is limited to 1024*800. This is early days though and I'm sure with the way hardware support is improving in Solaris x86 these limits will go.

Posted at 12:53PM May 16, 2007 by oz in Solaris X86  |  Comments[4]