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June 06, 2004
PC Organ Donor for Domino 4.6
Our old home PC that was replaced by the Apple eMac last year has been as useful after it's Apple induced death as before. The PC has been quietly resting in state in the basement, waiting to be called back into action. First, the 40 gig drive found a home in an external firewire drive and became the iTunes drive. Now, I'm pulling the SCSI CD-ROM to add to a test machine at work.
I'm working on installing Sun Solaris 8 for x86 Intel. After using Linux for the last R6 test machine, I'm spoiled. Since there wasn't a Domino 4.6 version for Linux, Solaris for x86 Intel is the next best thing. And, I really do mean the next best thing. I'm running into a common problem with ATA CD-ROM's. When doing Google searches for my CD-ROM problem, there's lots of people complaining about the same problem I'm having and very few answers.
The Solaris install reminds me of my first attempt to install Linux in 1999. Ughhhhh. When this ugly thought came to my mind, I remembered reading that the old Linux installs worked much better if everything was SCSI. Hopefully, this is the answer.
Posted by michael at June 6, 2004 01:05 PM