Non formated hdd

hello, I want to install solaris 10 on my ultra sun 5. I have 40go hdd, 400mhz, 512ram. the sun boot of course the cdrom, and I start l' installaton, but the installation stoped on the message -- hdd not formated.
how which utility I can to format my hdd.
SYL
Philo

When the installer stops, it should leave you with a windowing system (I'm presuming you're in a graphical environment).
Right-click on the wallpaper, choose 'terminal', and at the prompt in the terminal that will appear, type in 'format'. This should show you a menu of installed drives, which in your case will be one. Choose that one by menu item, and format should that whine that the disk is unlabelled, and ask if it as allowed to apply a default label.
Allow it to do so, quit out with ctrl-D, and run format again. This time it shouldn't whine about the drive. Then reboot off the cdrom.
If it can't find a default label, you may have a big problem.

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