following the last post, I tried to install Solaris in my laptop. It's an Acer Aspire 5633 (Intel T5500 Centrino Duo). This laptop comes with Vista Home Premium and to avoid problems with the original installation I had bought a new hard disk this morning. Installing it was easy and then..
First attempt was with Solaris 6/06 (Update 3). I know that it isn't the last version but I have the original DVD's from Sun. Failed... the installation hangs unable to find the hard disk. Seems that this version doesn't have the correct drivers for the chipset. Searching in the Sun forums found that this new chipset has different controllers for ATA devices (serial and Parallel separately).
Second attempt with Solaris Express 2/07. It detected the hard disk OK but hang preparing partitions.. ouff. After this fails I start downloading the latest release of Solaris (8/07). Maybe new drivers were prepared.
At the end I installed Fedora 7 64bits.... Impressive performance .. really fast to install and to work. Now I'm going to play with Fedora some days... I'll maintain you informed...
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