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Operating Systems Solaris Need help to install Solaris 10 - trying for last three days Post 302329679 by johnjerry on Monday 29th of June 2009 07:52:28 AM

06-29-2009

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Need help to install Solaris 10 - trying for last three days

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...
_

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..... Smilie

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.

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install-solaris(1M)													       install-solaris(1M)

NAME

       install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system

SYNOPSIS

       install-solaris

       install-solaris	invokes  the  Solaris  Install	program. Depending on graphical capability and available memory at the time of invocation,
       install-solaris invokes either a text-based installer or a graphical installer.

       The following minimum requirements for physical memory dictate which features are available during installation:

       For SPARC machines:

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       384 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       For x86 machines:

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       512 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       In some cases, even if the minimum physical memory is present, available virtual memory after system startup can limit the number  of  fea-
       tures available.

       install-solaris	exists	only  on  the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should be invoked only from there. Refer to the  for more
       details.

       install-solaris allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. install-solaris loads the software available on the
       installation media. Refer to the  for disk space requirements.

       Refer to the  for more information on the various menus and selections.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcdrom  (Solaris instal-  |
       |			     |lation media)		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       pkginfo(1), install(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)

       It is advisable to exit install-solaris by means of the exit options in the install-solaris menus.

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