Installing & booting non-global zones

Hi all,
I am having problems with installing and booting a non-global zones. My configurations are as follows :
zonepath: /export/small-zone
autoboot: true
pool:
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /lib
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /platform
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /sbin
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /usr
net:
address: 192.168.1.101
physical: hme0
There is no problems when I try to verify the zone. However, upon installing, I get the following errors :
<SUNWexplu SUNWexplo SUNWesr SUNWtftpr SUNWdtdmr SUNWmdu SUNWbsr .....(and many other pachages ) >
Despite all this, I am able to boot the new non-global zone. However when I do `zlogin -C -e\@ small-zone', I only get the message "[Connected to zone 'small-zone' console]" .I don't get the install sequence as expected. I am consequently unable to get the console login.
Can anyone please help me ?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi swa.. it's Lucky... thanks for your time...
the out put of "df -hk /export/small-zone" is :
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 9.6G 9.4G 118M 99% /
the out put of "zoneadm list -cv" is :
ID NAME STATUS PATH
0 global running /
6 small-zone running /export/small-zone
Now, I know it seems like its working, but it's not quite working properly. I tried a "zlogin -C small-zone" before I ever booted up. It just hangs with the message "[Connected to zone 'small-zone' console]"
Then upon booting up, I get :
"[NOTICE : zone booting up]
Sun OS Release 5.10 Version Generic 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to licence terms.
INIT : can not open /etc/default/init. Environment not initialised.
INIT : can not stat inittab, errno:2.
INIT : Absent svc.startd entry a bad contract template. Not starting svc.startd.
Requesting maintenence mode
(see /lib/svc/share/README for additional information)
** Unable to retrieve 'root' entry in shadow password file ***
Entering maintainence mode
It seems that the initial configuration where you set up the username passwords has been totally bi-passed due to a failure. I have no idea why this is so.... Any help would be much appreciated.
Once again, thats for your help.

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