Hey folks,
This is one hell of a site btw. I've spent the last couple of days searching the forum for help here and some of it has been properly beneficial.
Anyway, enough of the brown-nosing.
Here's the thing, i've been fortunate enough to get a hold of a very old and very crappy Presario 5000 for free, and I want to stick Solaris on it as (a) I need to learn Unix for uni next year and want to get a jump start, and (b) i've been waiting for a chance to wean myself off windows for a while now.
Only problem is, I want to avoid as many headaches with hardware conflicts etc, so before installation i'm basically researching as much as I can about putting Solaris onto the system.
I've checked the 'Support - BigAdmin' section for the hardware issues involved, and basically, have not had much luck apart from finding out that the graphics card (which i'm taking out anyway) is compatible.
I can't find any info on the MB, Bios, HDD etc at all!!
I think that the Presario is just too old and sucky.
So if anyone has had any experience installing ANY Unix/Linux OS onto a Presario 5000, i'd really appreciate info on the distro that they used.
Thanks in advance,
Shep.