Solaris 8 intel install problem

When my Solaris 8 install gets to the spot where it asks for the language to use (0-9, english is 0, which I want), anything I hit on my keyboard sends bogus VT codes to the screen. Earlier in the install process (when it asks for solaris interactive vs custom for example), my keyboard works fine, I can choose 1 or 2 there.
Has anyone else seen the problem? I've tried multiple keyboards, and they all do the same thing.

Sounds like the dell keyboard problem:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/20088
Did you try an USB keyboard? That's supposed to work around
this bug...

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Solaris 8 Intel install problems

I'm a noob to this, I try to install the Solaris 8 Intel on AMD XP as second os (XP Pro 1st os) but failed. I get this error message:
error: Configuration error - missing controller?
The root file system is not mounted and the configuration assistant has exited prematurely.
Booting is unlikely to succeed. CTRL-ALT-DEL may be used to reset the machine.
Failover to boot interpreter - type ctrl-d to resume boot
>
I tried ctrl-d it didnt work like it said and give these error message:
Cannot load drivers for
(can't load the root filesystem)
Please help, thank you

Did you get any help with these problems? I am worried now beacuse my install files are nothing like these sizes. I unzipped a v1-a to 128 Kb.
Did you find some isntructions? Could you forward them to me because I cannot find any. Thank you.
Mike
Hello,
I'm trying to create the 3 iso files from the Solaris
8 Intel download and am having
a problem with the iso formed file sizes. Two of the
iso files, the "install.iso"
and "v1.iso" are larger than 700 meg. (which is the
limit on my CDs) They are
944 meg and 729 meg respectively.
The sun intructions say to create the iso files from
the zipped files I downloads after
unzipping them. Well, combining 3 files each into
each iso file for the CD image is
creating these large iso images.
Is this the right procedure?
Also, do I even need the install.iso image as I see a
lot of talk on the newsgroups
about starting a fresh Solaris 8 install with CD 1
("v1.iso")?
Thank you!
- Steve

Solaris 8 Install Problem - Partition(s)

First, I am a relative "newbie" when it comes to SUN Solaris and System Adminstration, though I know enough UNIX to be dangerous (read "get me into trouble" - hahaha).
I tried to do an "upgrade" to the O/S (2.7) on my Ultra 5, but when doing an "initial install", the system will only allow me to set the partitions/slices manually at the cylinder level. Any attempts to do so have failed, as I keep getting an "overlapping cylinder" error message, regardless of how I try to setup root, /usr, etc. The Solaris 8 O/S setup swap as follows:
Starting - 3275 Size - 1110
FYI, I was trying to do the install using the Solaris 8 CDROM, Solaris build date 2/02.
Overall, I appear to be having a lot of issues with the Seagate Medalist ST34321A (4.1 Gbyte) drive that came with my Sun Ultra 5. The drive appears to work correctly, but an attempts to "wipe out" the drive (reformat) have not met with success.
Any suggestions anyone can provide regarding the install problem would be appreciated.

If you are trying to Upgrade to Sol 8 it is strongly suggested that you do not use the Installation CD. Use CD 1 of 2 with a boot cdrom. You will have to answer the sysid questions and then should get prompted for Initial Install or Upgrade. If you do not get the Upgrade prompt then there is a problem with your original Sol 7 system. Things like nfs mounts in vfstab, links to /var/sadm/patch, pkg or install/contents.
An Upgrade should not be asking you to lay out filesystems. It should use your existing ones.

Solaris 10 install problem (requested image to big to fit into memory)

I have just downloaded the iso images and burned to disk. When I go to install I get the message (Requested image to big to fit into memory Error 28) I have 1.5GB so I don't understand the problem. Thanks in advance
It took a long time for me to figure out, but the answer is disable in BIOS memory hole at 15M to 16M. This solved the install problem with Open Solaris and quite a few more such as not being able to install Linux Zenwalk 5.0 or openSUSE 10.3. Their are others also problems I have had with Linux or UNIX that this took care of. JGZ
Edited by: jgz on Mar 8, 2008 9:13 PM

Hi,
I had been able to solve the Error 28 issue that in my case was really related to a corrupted boot image:
1. I went in the path /a/platform/i86pc
2. rm boot_archive.
3. sync
4. reboot
At this point the OS will notice the absence of the boot_image and it will regenerate it.
At the time of this operation the CD with solaris 10 was inserted in the CDROM.
When the system restarted it was able to load the OS properly.
Please use these information at your own risk. I do not accept any liablity.
Cheers

HP ProLiant DL360 G4 Solaris 8 x86 Intel Install Problem

For some reason, solaris 8 does not see the disk, constantly get an error of No Disk, make sure its cabled and powered on. Right now , win 2003 server is installed and runs fine. Any ideas on how to get this working? It appears maybe a driver isnt installed.

Ok, here is the process. the solaris version is 8, date is 7/01
I boot up with the install cd 1 of 2.
View image: 1
Booting up here
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Driver loading up into memory
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DU Diskette removed and hit continue (Also kept it in just in case, but with same negative results)
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System scan started
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Boot device selection screen
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If disk is chosen, ERROR Cannot mount, so CD ROM is chosen instead.
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Solaris 10 Install problem with SATA drives

Hi, I'm trying to install solaris 10 on a x86 system with 2 SATA drives running in a on board SATA controler (not RAID).
During install the setup fails to detect the disks, to install Windows XP I have to provide disk drivers during the setup procedure by pressing F6 and providing the drivers, alas I cannot seem to find either a way to provide SATA controler drivers to solaris, nor a suitable driver for solaris .
Any help would be extremely apreciated.

I had the same SATA problem on builds 69 and 72 of Solaris10, but the Release version recognises and installs readily on SATA drives on three mainboards that I use. They are Tyan s2875 with dual opteron cpus, Asus k8N-E with a 754 pin athlon64 cpu, and Gigabyte GA-K8NS-939 with a939 pin athlon64.
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Solaris 9 Install Problems

I am experiencing some problems on the latest release of Solaris 9 (1st non-beta, 6/03/02 downloaded). The installation seems to go smoothly, until it's finished and reboots the system. The system gets to the point:
Booting the 32 Bit OS (64 Bit on the Sun Blade 100)
and then says cannot access /etc/system and then the system goes into a panic state:
panic[cpu0]thread=1406000: read_binding_file: /etc/name_to_major file not found
01405990 genunix:read_binding++file+40 (1436ab8, 1453ecc, 7dc7c000, ffffffff
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My first instinct was to check the "boot-device" and it was pointing to the right disk in both cases. I can not think of anything else that would cause this.
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Daryl.

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is corrupted. Next time you install, do not select the
automatic reboot. After the install is finished, cd to /a
(where the newly installed boot drive is located
during installation) and verify that the file system
looks ok. Check /etc/system, /etc/path_to_inst, ...
-- richard

Solaris 9 install problem

I'm having a problem installing Solaris 9 on my ultrasparc IIi 440MHz system. I'm installing from CDs burned from the free iso download from Sun. Everything seems to be going fine until disc Software 2 of 2 where the web start install hangs. I can't figure out how to get to the command line, check for errors, or what to do next. Here is what is displayed last:
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Launching installer. Please Wait...
Installing Additional Software
|-1%- ... -100%|
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Nov 11 06:50:59 dev sendmail[207] My unqualified host name (dev) unknown; sleey
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I was under the impression that the install would concatenate the hostname and domain entries for the full host name.This should be the case if your machine would have found a valid DNS configuration.
Am I supposed to add the trailing dot to the domain? Some installation methods you can add dot and some others you can't.
Best is to leave the dot and fix DNS.
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.. Eric

Free Solaris 9 Instalation Problems

Dears Sirs,
(if this is not the forum i should post this, someone could please redirect me?)
I have the following HD configuration (I'm writing dev's in Linux style because I am completly new to Solaris)
/dev/hdc <- six partitions, three are primary, one is extended and the other two are 'inside' this extended one...
/dev/hdd <- two partitions, the first is having some bad.block problems, so i'd better not touch it
I want to install Solaris on the second partition of /dev/hdd, which is my second IDE slave disk. But the instalation program looks for Solaris partitions only in /dev/rdsk/c1d0p0 (i guess this is the name)... I would rather not install it there, but in /dev/rdsk/c1d1p0 instead. But when it detects I have no Solaris partitions on hdc, the only option I have is to quit, fix the problem and latter come back to the instalation program... anyone got any clue?
Thanks in advance...
Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont

A weird decision I made when I chose to have my HD's in the second IDE... so weird I can't remember now (I must have been asleep at that moment). Well, in fact I will change it, anyways.
I am quite versed on Linux today (in fact I only have winxp because my brother needs it - if I lived alone I would have Gentoo Linux only) and (NOTE: I have managed to access my other HD through Solaris9 install xterm and create a 4.4GB partition there, which I guess will be enough)... and when switched back to Linux today I found that Solaris9's fdisk made some changes which Linux's fdisk "didn't like", let's put it like that. I guess the logical/physical start/end of the referred partion were different. BTW, hdc is the master HD in the second IDE and hdd is the slave HD on the second IDE. I wanted to install Solaris on hdd, but I can only guess it is impossible... I have an alternative IDE scheme in mind... which is the following:
hda (master 1st ide): HD <- with Linux and WinXP
hdb (slave 1st ide): CDROM <- the one I use less
hdc (master 2nd IDE): HD <- one in which I'd install Solaris9
hdd (slave 2nd IDE): CD-WRITER <- which I use the most
With this scheme I guess I would optimize the use of the IDE's and I woudn't have a master waiting for a slave or a slave waiting for a master most of the time... well, it's guess anyways...
Anyway, isn't there a command like "/sbin/cd0_install --install-into=/dev/rsdk/c1d1p0" this???
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Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont

LMS 3.2 Solaris 10 install problem

hi
I have been trying for two days now to get LMS 3.2 properly installed on Solaris 10 10/08.
Installed on ZFS filesystem with patch 127127-11 applied.
The "symptoms" are as follow:
When I point my browser to http://10.xxx.xxx.xxx:1741
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RESULT Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
I have tried to install different parts of LMS suite but nothing seems to work.
Any help is very welcome !
BR
Lasse

#1
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#2
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#3
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#5
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Solaris 8 install problems on Ultra 10

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Solaris 10 Install problem on headless E250

I have tried a number of times to get the latest download to install on my headless E250 using the text installer. Most times it installs the 1st cd then reboots only to report that "the file just loaded does not appear to be executable". This is taking the default options, installing the full version, using autolayout on 2x9GB drives.
I've upgraded openboot to 3.30 I've tried installing it on different 18GB drives - I either get the same message, or the boot fails with a read-only filesystem error.
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JJ

Anytime i've seen that kind of error is when there is a problem with some settings in the PROM on the system.
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Solaris 10 install problem "No Solaris Web Start Ready products were found"

I am trying to install Solaris10 U5 in SunFire 240 .
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http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl
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Oracle 8i EE Solaris 7 install problem

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Solaris 8 4/01 Intel Instalation/Boot Problems

I am TRYING to install the Solaris 8 for Intel and i am having several problems.
I managed to solve some of them but now i am stuck.
I am running a PII with a an Adapetc 2940 and a scsi disk.
I am using interactive instalation one software cd 1.
I am creating 2 partions one X86 boot with 10 Mb and another one of solaris type with 8500 Mb.
in the second one i created a slice for root and another one for swap.
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Howdy,
I am please to see someone with ethics responding to some basic questions of a solaris install problem on an intel platform. I have been working with solaris on sparc for a while, not I am trying the Intel side of the house.
I am having a similar problem as you mentioned. I have a Compaq Deskpro system with an IDE 2gb disk to install Solaris 8 4/01 on. I get all the way through the instructions to #27 on the DOC CD to the reboot of the system and the pulling out of the Installation CD. It tells me that I will need to wait for the system to reset then pull out the CD before the sytem completes its Memory test and HW detection.
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