I am trying to install Solaris 9 in a laptop which has W2000 installed. Its a Pentium4 with 128 Mb RAM. I try to boot from CD but it makes a panic. Anyone know why this happen? Pentium4 is not supported by Solaris 9? Thank you

Solaris 9 should be fine with Pentium 4. The problem is more likely to be with W2K, NTFS can cause problems. You need to either use a product like Partition Magic to create a ufs partition for SOlaris to run on, or in W2K, have a C partition for Windows, and a D partition which you can give fully to Solaris' control.

Just last week, I have installed Solaris 9 on my new Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop along with Windows XP, RedHat 8 and Solaris 9. I would recommend that you install Windows first, then Linux if you want to but keep in mind not to put the boot loader on Master Boot Record MBR for Linux, just keep it on its own partition and then install Solaris. You should install windows on One partition, Linux on one ( do a manual prtitioning/install else it will creat many partitions )and solaris on one partition. I have forth one partition for Data only. It took me a week to get every thing in order !!

Yar Baily, This is slightly OT. I'm picking up an Inspiron 8200 and I have a couple questions for you since that OS combo is exactly what I intend to use on it. If you could email me, my address is aaronpa2003 the domain is yahoo.com (i split it to avoid any trolling spambots). Thanks. Aaron