Postprocess issue installing Solaris 9 Branded Zone


 
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Postprocess issue installing Solaris 9 Branded Zone

Hello,

I am attempting to install a newly configured Solaris 9 zone using the flash archive image provided on the sun website. Each time I run the install I get a failure during the Postprocess: Creating mount points. Following is the log:

[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] Log File: /var/tmp/s9-zone.install.25457.log
[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] Product: Solaris 9 Containers 1.0
[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] Installer: solaris9 brand installer 1.21
[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] Zone: s9-zone
[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] Path: /export/zones/s9-zone
[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] Starting pre-installation tasks.
[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] Installation started for zone "s9-zone"
[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] Source: /var/tmp/solaris9-image.flar
[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] Media Type: flash archive
[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] Installing: This may take several minutes...
[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] cd /export/zones/s9-zone/root &&
[Wed Aug 19 19:04:55 UTC 2009] do_flar < "/var/tmp/solaris9-image.flar"
[Wed Aug 19 19:12:36 UTC 2009] Postprocessing: This may take several minutes...
[Wed Aug 19 19:12:36 UTC 2009] running: p2v -u s9-zone
[Wed Aug 19 19:12:36 UTC 2009] Postprocess: Gathering information about zone
s9-zone
[Wed Aug 19 19:12:37 UTC 2009] Postprocess: Creating mount points
touch: /export/zones/s9-zone/root/etc/mnttab cannot create
chmod: WARNING: can't access /export/zones/s9-zone/root/etc/mnttab
[Wed Aug 19 19:12:37 UTC 2009] Postprocess: Processing /etc/system
cp: cannot access /export/zones/s9-zone/root/etc/system
[Wed Aug 19 19:12:37 UTC 2009] Result: Postprocessing failed.
[Wed Aug 19 19:12:37 UTC 2009]
[Wed Aug 19 19:12:37 UTC 2009] Result: *** Installation FAILED ***
[Wed Aug 19 19:12:37 UTC 2009] Log File: /var/tmp/s9-zone.install.25457.log


I have all of the latest Container Packages and am running the following release:
Solaris 10 10/08 s10s_u6wos_07b SPARC
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 27 October 2008

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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