nx5000

Solaris 10 at a HP nx5000 notebook

Solaris 10 works nearly perfect with a HP nx5000 notebook. You can use

Xorg display with 1024x768

Sound

build in 1 GB NIC

build in DVD drive

USB (no hotplug?)

You can't use

build in WLAN card

build in modem

PCMCIA slots

pre installing

Boot your notebook with knoppix, create a primary partition with partition type bf. The partition table may look like this

root@1[~]# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1        1823    14636128+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1823        1945      982800    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda3   *        1945        3953    16133040   bf  Unknown

installing

Now boot solaris with the Solaris 10 x86 DVD and install the whole operating system.

post installing

Login at the console and change root's $HOME from / to /root. Don't forget to create this directory and chmod 700 /root
At this stage, X and sound, but no network is running. Get the device driver from http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng

# touch /etc/dhcp.bcf0

to enable dhcp client servces for this device.
Edit your /etc/auto_home if your users homes should be at the local drive

* localhost:/export/home/&
+ auto_home

As soon as the automounter ist restarted, you can create user accounts. I recomend the /usr/bin/bash as their shell. To make things more comfortable edit the /etc/profile and add sone lines ...

PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/opt/csw/bin"

if [ "$BASH" ]; then
  PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
else
  if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
    PS1='# '
  else
    PS1='$ '
  fi
fi

export PATH PS1

umask 022

Get pkg-get for a huge amount of installable applications like xmms, xine and many more. Please read http://www.blastwave.org/howto.html how to install this package tool.