ok so i went and got OpenSolaris 2008.05 burned ISO to disc using alchohol 120%(successfully) and rebooted with disc in drive.
it got as far i did with Mandriva
in mandriva i did the same up to the Reboot, when it starts loading, with progress bar (it has no caption on it for some reason?) and after the loading bar a console(command prompt like) shows up, and i dont know what to do from there ive seen the tutorials and most of them seem to skip this console and go straight into the setup. i have no idea what i did wrong, and i also need help partitioning the drive. i have Windows Home XP disc and it only partitions to NTFS, i read that FAT filesystem is needed and i dont have any software to do this. can somone gimme a URL to a site to actually get such software, maybe this will fix the console showing up.
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BTW i only want Linux as main OS not multiboot with windows(sick of windows)