Solaris

yes and yes. I selected the entire distribution and it asked me for the ip settings, hostname, partitoning etc...
Thanks for your help guys. It's got me baffled.

But what does the install log say you selected? And where did these CDs come from?

Here's the output I got after the installation of CD1. can anyone help?? just boots solaris after CD1 has installed.
Thankyou.






Solaris 10 software installation succeeded
Customizing system files
- Mount points table (/etc/vfstab)
- Unselected disk mount points (/var/sadm/system/data/vfstab.unselected)
- Network host addresses (/etc/hosts)
- Network host addresses (/etc/hosts)
- Environment variables (/etc/default/init)
Cleaning devices
Customizing system devices
- Physical devices (/devices)
- Logical devices (/dev)
Installing boot information
- Installing boot blocks (c1t0d0s0)
- Updating system firmware for automatic rebooting
WARNING: Could not update system for automatic rebooting
Installation log location
- /a/var/sadm/system/logs/install_log (before reboot)
- /var/sadm/system/logs/install_log (after reboot)
Install of CD 1 complete.
Executing SolStart postinstall phase...
Executing finish script "patch_finish"...

Finish script patch_finish execution completed.
Executing JumpStart postinstall phase...
The begin script log 'begin.log'
is located in /var/sadm/system/logs after reboot.
The finish script log 'finish.log'
is located in /var/sadm/system/logs after reboot.

Pausing for 90 seconds at the "Reboot" screen. The wizard will continue to
the next step unless you select "Pause". Enter 'p' to pause. Enter 'c' to
continue. [c] c
syncing file systems... done
rebooting...
Resett
LOM event: +0h43m0s host reset
ing ...
ÿ
Processor Speed = 648 MHz
Baud rate is 9600
8 Data bits, 1 stop bits, no parity (configured from lom)
Firmware CORE Sun Microsystems, Inc.
@(#) core 1.0.17 2003/10/06 17:09
Software Power ON
Verifying NVRAM...Done
Bootmode is 0
[New I2C DIMM address]
MCR0 = 57b2ce06
MCR1 = 80008000
MCR2 = c33000ff
MCR3 = a00000cf
Ecache Size = 512 KB
Clearing E$ Tags Done
Clearing I/D TLBs Done
Probing memory
Done
MEMBASE=0x40000000
MEMSIZE=0x20000000
Clearing memory...Done
Turning ON MMUs Done
Copy ROM to RAM (170080 bytes) Done
Orig PC=0x1fff0007e44 New PC=0xf0f07e9c
Processor Speed=648MHz
Looking for Dropin FVM ... found
Decompressing Client Done
Transferring control to Client...
ttya initialized
Reset Control: BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1 POR:0
Probing upa at 1f,0 pci pci pci
Probing upa at 0,0 SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (512 Kb)
Loading Support Packages: kbd-translator
Loading onboard drivers: ebus flashprom eeprom idprom SUNW,lomh
Probing /pci@1,1 Device 3 pmu i2c temperature dimm dimm i2c-nvram
idprom motherboard-fru fan-control
lomp
Probing Memory Bank #0 512 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #1 512 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #2 0 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #3 0 Megabytes
Probing /pci@1,1 Device 7 isa power serial serial
Probing /pci@1,1 Device c network firewire usb
Probing /pci@1,1 Device 3
Probing /pci@1,1 Device d ide disk cdrom
Probing /pci@1,1 Device 5 pci108e,1100 network firewire usb
Probing /pci@1 Device 8 scsi disk tape scsi disk tape
Probing /pci@1 Device 5 Nothing there
Probing /pci@1 Device 6 Nothing there
Probing /pci@1 Device 7 Nothing there
Sun Fire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe 648MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #58377697.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:7a:c5:e1, Host ID: 837ac5e1.

Environment monitoring: disabled
Executing last command: boot
Boot device: disk1 File and args:
Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.
FCode UFS Reader 1.12 00/07/17 15:48:16.
Loading: /platform/SUNW,UltraAX-i2/ufsboot
Loading: /platform/sun4u/ufsboot
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_127127-11 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
os-io Hostname: smithers1
/dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s7 is clean
smithers1 console login: root
Password:

Are you sure that you have a CD as opposed to a DVD? Also post the contents of /etc/release.

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BTW, when I install Solaris I always use just the first CD. It never asked me for any other CD's because I select a flash install. I have a flar that I previously created. My flar happens to have man pages but I could have built a flar without man pages. My flar has a bunch of software that I added like lsof, gnupg, and cups. I suspect that something like this is going on.