Is it possible to install solaris on unformated disk?

Hi!
Is it possible to install solaris8 on scsi unformated disk,the new purchased one?It's gonna be the only one disk in workstation,becouse the old one faild.Any ideas?
Thank you.

This is a normal problem with new disks. Since I use jumpstart I have since adjusted and the server autoformats the disks for me. Since you are on a singe platform my suggestion is that you do a boot cdrom and then when the installer gets to a stopping point (at the beginning) just open a new ternimal window and then type format. All that needs to be done is labeling the drive, nothing else. Afterword you can close the window and proceed with the installation. You MUST not proceed with the install until the drive is labeled. So the second that the desktop comes up open the 2nd terminal window by right clicking the mouse and chosing host > terminal.

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Hai!
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I don't have a CD writer or DVD writer to burn the software onto CDs and then install it. Kindly let me know if it is possible to install the software without burning it onto CDs.
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Kartheek D. N.

Without a jumpstart server you would need to burn the DVD or at least the first CD, then you'ld boot of the first CD and install the initial OS. Once the OS have rebooted after the first install, you can install the software available on the remaining four cd's by mounting them with "lofiadm", "mount" and running the installer on the CD-images.
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Linux support installation from HD, will it be possible in solaris?

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Error when installing Solaris 10_x86 Language Disk

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Indeed, it happened to me as well, using the CD I downloaded from here
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Help me in Installing Solaris Express, Developer Edition X 86

Hi,
Help me in installing Solaris Express, Developer Edition
When i am trying to install Solaris, system hangs and the moniter is switcher off when the system goes in GUI mode.
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Thanking you,
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here:
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l
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installer on the console. Try this one, and once you
get through that, you can afterwards figure out the
settings of the Xserver.Hi ,
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Help me in installing Solaris Express, Developer Edition X86

Hi,
Help me in installing Solaris Express, Developer Edition
When i am trying to install Solaris, system hangs and the moniter is switcher off when the system goes in GUI mode.
i have intel 945GTP mother board with as on board Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Drives , Chipset -> Intle 945G , 160 SATA Hard Disk, 1 GB DDR2 Ram , P4 3.Ghz Processer , on board Intel PRO/100 VE Network Card.
Please,Help me.
Thanking you,
P.Sathish Kumar

Hello,
first of all: Try to run the HCTS (Hardware
Compatibility Test Suite) first, it's available
here:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.htm
l
This you can run from Windows, and it will list all
hardware that has drivers, and all those, that do not
have drivers (including some public domain drivers).
After that, you have the possibility to install
Solaris WITHOUT a GUI, use one of the two "terminal"
modes. The first Is still a GUI, as it only starts X
and opens a terminal, in which then the installer
runs. The second does NOT start X, but runs the
installer on the console. Try this one, and once you
get through that, you can afterwards figure out the
settings of the Xserver.Hi ,
i have installed the solaris using console.
Still GUI is not starting, the moniter is switched off when GUI gets started
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I have a laptop running windows 2000 and I have a External Firewire Hard Disk of 60 GB. Now my question is, " Is it possible to install Solaris 8 on this external Firewire Hard Disk". When I tried installing, It did not find the external Firewire Disk, the only partition information, which solaris was displaying was from my internal Hard Disk.
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panic-boot: exit to 64 returned from client program.
Program terminated.
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Is Solaris 8 (1/01) unable to installed on a 64-bit machine?
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Hello,
I just wanted to point you to the Sun System Handbook page for the F280R, but to my surprise the note is lacking from the current <b>public/free</b> version !!!
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<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>Quote:</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
Solaris 8 1/01requires specific patch installations. See 816-1712 for details.
Solaris 8 10/01 is the minimum OS for 900MHz Cu modules.
</td></tr></table>
<b>READ ME: Important Patch Installation Required Sun Blade 1000 Sun Enterprise 280R</b> is available from docs.sun.com.
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Is it possible to put Solaris on a disk 34 Gb.
It is impossible to me.

Try to install this patch.
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Since this is a fresh installation, you might consider starting it all over again.
You may have made some initial selections while prompted at the beginning of the install process, that accidentally omitted essential system files.
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The errors are not calling out either of the two possible internal drives.
Infodoc 21216 lists a few default system device paths, and ...Sun Fire [TM]v120 / Netra[TM] 120
PCI slot 0               /pci@1f,0/pci@1/<device>@1,*          33mhz-32bit-5V
disk 1                    /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@8/sd@0,0
disk 2                       /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@8/sd@1,0
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Can I install solaris on a second hard drive?

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Tottaly agree with the last post. Check if your hardware is in HCL, there is a free program you can download from Sun Download page, you burn it to CD and reboot, then it will provide you with all needed information. And if something is not in the list, you will get a hard time seting it up (there are a lot of unofficial drivers). So as an example: networkcard will be hard to install and set up. So check first.
As from my experiense conserning instalation, I would suggest to do so:
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Just as a reminder: you dont need alot of space for Solaris to work properly, plus there not so much software which requires big amount of HD. So for OS and nice package for development you will probably need tops 10Gb.

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