Solaris

hi

is there anyone out there who has experience with installing Solaris on this chipset?
there is one entry in the HCL doc about it (BigAdmin - HCL: Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 rev1.0 ) but that person apparently doesnt reply when another asks him some questions.

im looking to install on following hardware:
AMD Processors for Desktops: AMD Phenom?, AMD Athlon? FX, AMD Athlon? X2 Dual-Core, AMD Athlon?, and AMD Sempron? Processor on
Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H Motherboard Review :: Introduction :: Motherboards.org with four of these: WD Caviar Blue 320 GB SATA Hard Drives ( WD3200AAKS )

is there anyone that can say something sensible about these hardwares?

the processor should be feasible, according to what iv read. my main doubt is the motherboard.

all reactions & suggestions welcome

PS ; im building this system so i can get to know solaris better at home; im a total ignorant noob still (in relation to Solaris )

Solaris X86 should work fine on that. Heck I've even installed it on an AMD board with an Intel 4 processor.

how did you do that then? i thought the sockets didnt match (i must admit iv never tried either)
anyway, thanks for your reaction Seg.
are there any specific things that i should be aware of?
i wanna install from a CD or DVD (iv read there could be issues with making the system recognizing devices connected through Sata) so would it be better to get one that connects through PATA (= IDE) or the newer SATA conncetd CD/DVD burners?

cheers

L

SATA is not that big of a deal, most (if not all) of the AMD based servers Sun sells use SATA drives.

I did run into one issue that I never researched or solved. One of the patch clusters from Sun killed the SVM RAID I had set up. Because of the situation I was in at the time I just reinstalled and didn't apply that cluster. The moral of that is the same as most, test patches before pushing them out to production systems.

Pardon my previous error, I meant an ASUS board with Intel chip