So Fry's has had intermittent ridiculous hard drive deals lately. The most recent one was 400GB SATA HDDs for ~$80. I bought 4 of 'em, then scrounged up some cheap-o parts on Newegg. Long story short, I've now got a box set up and ready to become a storage server. I want to throw Solaris on it, because ZFS looks fucking hot. Problem: Solaris feels a lot like a moron.
Case in point: on boot, Solaris's DVD asked me if I wanted to do a graphical install or a text-mode install. I chose to do a graphical install. Solaris said "sure thing, sir" and started up X, then opened up a terminal window running its text-mode install. That's fucking enterprise.
This bastard won't detect my onboard LAN. Which irritates me because I bought this box with F/OSS friendliness in mind--Realtek LAN chipset and everything.
So this topic is one part "check out my geek penis," one part "any1 kno solaris? lol" and one part "so if I want to fuck with ZFS, does it make more sense to try to get Solaris to stop being retarded or to just hang it all and go with good ol' OpenBSD?"