[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

[Judah Richardson]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 6:14 PM Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer
> ISO...:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 1:25 PM Reginald Beardsley via
> openindiana-discuss <
> > openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> The HP BIOS is the screwiest one I've ever come across.
> >
> > Can confirm via my HP ProBook. Dell's BIOSes are a lot better.
>
> That may be true, but both Jedi and I tried several different Dell systems
> in late 2019 (mostly PowerEdge R710, R720, and R730 servers for me) and
> could
> not get a successful OI install on any of them using the 2019 OI
> installers.
> I tried a range of BIOS versions for each of them, including latest or in
> some cases last BIOS version.
>
Sorry, I was referring to the BIOS' UI/UX in isolation, not how well it
works with OI. I use an HP Z800 daily but don't have access to its BIOS
(AFAIK, I've never tried) so I can't comment there. However, I have seen
folks on here say it works well with Solaris and OI, so there's that.

>
> I've also found that the most recent Dell Precision workstations now come
> with some features (like USB boot) not available from the legacy BIOS.
> They're slowly moving primarily to UEFI.

... as is everything. It's the current gen industry standard.

  There's a good chance that my
> next workstation at work won't actually run OI.
>
I create and run simulations for a living. I haven't been assigned a
non-Windows workstation since 2009 (IBM AIX was the last non-Windows OS I
ran directly for work). The last cluster I used had an IBM web frontend; I
have no idea what OS it was running, and that job was sufficiently
stressful to make that question a trivial detail ;)

>
> Tim
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