[ashishshevale]

I have a open solaris live cd but have following problems

sound drivers could not be installed

the cube desktop display feature cannot be enabled

could not mount the drives one of them is ntfs and others fat32 type but cd drives and usb are automatically mounted in usr/mnt/var

my computer specifications are quad core 64 bit wih 3 gb ddr2 ram so I dont think thats an issue

[no2pencil]

ashishshevale, on 6 May, 2009 - 05:42 AM, said:

could not mount the drives one of them is ntfs and others fat32 type but cd drives and usb are automatically mounted in usr/mnt/var

Did you install & compile the ntfs & fat32 file systems into the kernel?

[ashishshevale]

no2pencil, on 6 May, 2009 - 03:49 AM, said:

Did you install & compile the ntfs & fat32 file systems into the kernel?

its a live cd so the os starts when I put cd at boot
I havent installed os
I know that there is some command in linux to be typed in terminal to mount the drives but couldnt remember them
also will same command work here too

[numeric]

I think no2pencil is on the right track here - It doesn't look like ntfs is supported by default. I found a couple of links on mounting ntfs and fat32 and it looks like you need to add a few packages to get them working: first link Seccond Link

I might give this a shot later on, I've never used opensolaris so you've gone and got me interested let us know if you get it working

[no2pencil]

ashishshevale, on 6 May, 2009 - 05:56 AM, said:

I know that there is some command in linux to be typed in terminal to mount the drives

The command is mount. But the file system has to be in the OS. If it doesn't know how to communicate with ntfs, then it can't *magically* mount it.

mount -t <file system> /dev/<device> /mnt/<mount point>

[ashishshevale]

thanks guys

no2pencil, on 6 May, 2009 - 05:21 PM, said:

The command is mount. But the file system has to be in the OS. If it doesn't know how to communicate with ntfs, then it can't *magically* mount it.

mount -t <file system> /dev/<device> /mnt/<mount point>

the command you told it is for linux but I will give it a try for open solaris

but about these things

ashishshevale, on 6 May, 2009 - 03:42 AM, said:

I have a open solaris live cd but have following problems

sound drivers could not be installed

the cube desktop display feature cannot be enabled


my computer specifications are quad core 64 bit wih 3 gb ddr2 ram so I dont think thats an issue

still waiting to know about these things

[no2pencil]

ashishshevale, on 6 May, 2009 - 10:18 PM, said:

still waiting to know about these things

In case you have not noticed, there are not a lot of Solaris users. You can either continue to wait & let us know how that works out, or you could take a more proactive approach.

I mean... you list "sound drivers".

Unix doesn't use "drivers". It does have modules. Not to mention you didn't list what style sound card that you are using. Plus... why does one care about sound from a Live Boot Disk? They are designed for maintenance or trial. Not long time use. When you install the OS, then try to get the sound working.

I'm not trying to be a prick, but when you use an obscure OS, you will run into the wall with these kinds of issues. Your best bet is to Google, or use something with more support.

ashishshevale, on 6 May, 2009 - 10:18 PM, said:

no2pencil, on 6 May, 2009 - 05:21 PM, said:

mount -t <file system> /dev/<device> /mnt/<mount point>

the command you told it is for linux but I will give it a try for open solaris

From the syntax that I have provided, the command works the same on Unix as it does on Linux.