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June 26, 2008
Installing OpenSolaris on the MAC
OpenSolaris 2008.05 Meet the MacBook Pro
Brian has an excellent post about installing OpenSolaris on the MAC. As he notes he is "not the first to document this configuration (1).
However, I wasn't successful with any of the other approaches I
discovered. Maybe this was because it most cases they were using a
pre-release build of OpenSolaris 2008.05. So, for what it's worth, here
are the steps that led me to success... "
Check it out here:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html
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I found Brian's blog helpful when installing on an Intel iMac 24 inch. The only diference was that I had to:
sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
instead of:
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
That missing 'r' stumped me for a while.