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Full Discussion: Sun Fire V440 and Patch 109147-39
Operating Systems Solaris Sun Fire V440 and Patch 109147-39 Post 90879 by BOFH on Monday 28th of November 2005 01:49:45 PM
Old 11-28-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by rhfrommn
I've not seen a problem like yours before, but I have one idea you could check out. Were the other systems that worked ok V440 or were they older hardware? I've had a jumpstart problem before where the version of Solaris I was installing wasn't the latest hardware release, so newer systems were screwed up. Either they wouldn't jumpstart or were flaky when they were done. Maybe you have a situation like that where some missing HW support package wasn't causing problems before but now that patch expected it to be there and broke.

A longshot I know, but something you could check.
Yea, after some thought, I was coming up with something similar. Most of the other systems are UltraAX-i2's with a 60 and a couple of Ultra4's thrown in for good measure. These are new systems. I didn't set up the jumpstart for them, but I believe we had to go to a newer version of 8 to support the hardware.

I thought of that and the patch installation directory. We typically install from /tmp or /var/tmp but the patchadd docs do say it's expecting it from /var/sadm/spool/patch and it does act odd sometimes if it's not in /tmp (ownership issues since patchadd is su'ing to nobody to run pkgadd).

Thanks for the reply though.

Carl
 

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install-solaris

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)

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