Installing SFWgcc from Sol 8 Media

Question

I can't get CDE/Openwin running (Yet), so am pkgadd'ing direct from the Additional software CD. When installing SFWgcc, I get complaints about SFWgcmn not being installed. This packages doesn't seem to be on any of the CD's, is this a mistake by Sun? Or am I not looking correctly?

Answer 1

What do you select as the device to boot from? Is Solaris installed on the Hard drive? If not then you must select the cdrom as the boot device until such time as Solaris is installed on the hard drive. If the floppy was not write protected when this happened it will be corrupt now and you need to download a new image from http://access1.sun.com and re-create the DCA floppy using the dd command.
If there is a Solaris 8 install on the hard drive then you may still need to boot cdrom, single-user and debug that install.
Instructions for booting single-user cdrom are in InfoDoc 22006. Here is the pertenant section:
Booting Single-User From CDROM Using the Device Configuration Assistant (DCA) on the Hard Drive:
1). Power the system on.
2). Insert the correct version Solaris Software cdrom for your system.
OPTIONAL: If there is a boot loader in operation on your system, select the Solaris partition as the partition to boot from.
3). After the "Solaris Secondary Boot Loader" and "Running Device Configuration Assistant" messages appear, hit the 'esc' key where prompted to do so.
4). At the "DCA intro screen" hit F2 (F2_Continue).
5). At the "list of devices found" hit F2 (F2_Continue).
6). At the "list of available boot devices" select the CDROM as the device from which to boot a Solaris kernel.
7). At the screen where you are prompted to select 1, 2, or 3 for what type of install you wish to do, enter 'b -s' instead of a number.
This will bring the system up to single-user mode from the cdrom.
Hope this helps.
Don