by I have a few questions about installing solaris 7 for intel platform, I have
been halfway through the install before, even though I have a atapi/ide
cd-rom that's not on the HCL, i got a few little read errors, but it seemed
to keep on going fine. I got up to the part where it boots the kernel, and
you're in the gui, and you are asked to select the partitions. I currently
have a 1.5 wdc hard drive, which is just one big partition with win95 on it.
Which of course was the only thing I could see. But I also have a 2.1 gig
seagate scsi drive on a i540 siig isa scsi adapter. (which has a bunch of
screwed up linux partitions on it, because i cannot get redhat to install) i
was wondering if there's any way to make solaris see this scsi/adapter and
drive during the installation so I can install to the drive? It came with
drivers for win, dos, os/2, linux, unixware, and iux. When solaris is doing
the hardware detection, I think it sees the isa card, but I'm not totally
sure, because it lists my sound card and joyport as 2 seperate isa cards
even though they are really one. I see a 3rd isa card listed with out a
label, Im wondering if that's it? It lists all the other devices in my
system perfectly fine too. Is there anyway if I go into that edit hardware
menu that I can make it see the scsi hd? If not, will I be able to
partition my ide drive and put solaris on that? and how big should I make
the solaris partition? and also should it be the first or second partition?
or maybe should I just let solaris have the whole ide drive, and let win95
have the scsi drive? I have the ability to boot from either. But then again,
I would probably get lots of blue screens in win because it's on a hard
drive doesn't have the driver loaded up yet for the scsi adapter (this
happened when I first installed the adapter and the hard drive, I had to
disconnect the hard drive, install the drivers, and then reconnect it!)
Any comments or suggestions or fixes would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
michelle