I am trying for last 3 days to install Sun Solaris 10. i have downloaded Full DVD image and 5 cd images from Sun's website.

1. I tried with DVD image but it cannot read some clusters at onset so I am not even getting Grey console after providing option 1 [Solaris Interactive Mode (Default)]. Issue is: Fatal error...cannot read from Media device
2. tried to load from 5CDs pack...
It was good all over and installation was going fine. After setting all mounting point et al, system started Solaris installation; however, after loading 16% (exactly), black DOS screen came back with certain error and the last text was
rebooting...
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There was no sign to reboot either. I waited for 4-5 minutes and pressed restart button to reboot forcefully. Once the system reboot was over, system asked me to insert disk 2 and I did so.
After I clicked "OK", installation panel showed me "Loading installation window Solaris 10 package 2...please wait". I waited for more than 1 hour, nothing came up and, it seemed, system was sleeping.....
Next time I again restarted system forcefully and tried to install Diskette 3 but this time also same thing happend. I am not sure what is going on.

Please tell me how should I proceed. If anybody has Sun Solaris 10 copy, please do forward me.....

Another question: At the time of installation, how solaris installar detects free disk space on HDD? Out of total 80GB I have 20GB for windows XP, 35 GB free for data storage and rest 20 GB for Solaris. When I came on the screen that asks to define hdd partition, I found that solaris detected only two parts: one is for Windows and other two parts were merged together.

To make things easier, just download and burn a DVD image and install. You would not want to waste time just for an OS installation, which is very very straight forward

I have already tried that but DVD image is not even loading the initial installation screen.....not even console interface....Hope, DVD image at SUN's site is not crrupted....

download the image agein (if your image is corrupted) or check your downloaded image with the checksum that you can find at the download page, before downloading the image again.

on what hardware do you work? have you checked the HCL at the sun webpage?

you can also go and download virtualbox or vmware and install solaris in a virtual machine just to see if this works...

I have checked all checksum codes for DVD copy as well as for CD copies. Those are absolutely perfect. Well, I'll give it another shot, keeping fingers crossed.



thanks DukeNuke2, pretty useful insight.

I have heard of similar issues with self recorded DVDs. You might want to try recording at a lower speed or with a different media type (eg: DVD-RW).

You are correct. There was some issue with DVD itself.

I verified checksum and have found that downloaded file is perfect. Lately, I burned DVD version on another
disk again and installed Solaris 10 on my system.

Still I am dealing with few issues.

My system config:
Dell D-620 latitude, Intel Dual Core 2GHz, 2.5GB DDR2 RAM and 80GB HDD.

I have created three partitions on disk C(20 GB -- Windows XP is running), D(35 GB - free space for NTFS) and E(20 GB - installed Solaris 10).
memory mounting for solaris:
/ 10240 MB (I intend to install Oracle 11g later)
swap 4096MB
32 MB
/opt 2096MB
/opt/oracle 1096 MB
/export/home 2464 MB
Problems are:
1. When I restart my computer and choose Sun Solaris from GNU GRUB screen I do not reach upto solaris login window and it seems that system is going to sleep for infinite time after showing below information. It never fetches "Hostname: johnjerry"
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SunOS Release 5.20 Version Generic_118855-33 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystem, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
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2. Next time I started Windows XP and restarted system. Now I chose Solaris from GRUB screen. this time, I got following messages.
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SunOS Release 5.20 Version Generic_118855-33 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystem, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Hostname: johnjerry
Configuring devices.
/dev/rdsk/c0d0s7 is clean
/dev/rdsk/c0d0s5 is clean
/dev/rdsk/c0d0s6 is clean

johnjerry console login:
...
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Now I got blue graphical frontend to login as root user. However, my keyboard did not work and, from second boot, I did not get any
response from mice device also. Still, I do not know what is the problem and I am not able to do anything further.
Please assist.