Solaris 10 3/05 x86 partition problem

I have tried to install Solaris 10 Express 3/05 on a blank 30GB IDE HDD(c0d0). When I tried to install, install shows error: slice "/" cannot exceed 1023 cylinder in HBA (something like that). I tried to keep /var, /usr, /home, /opt out of /, but still can not imagine that "/" can not exceed 500MB, not to mention I would like swap to start from the first possible cylinder on hdd.
Any suggestion?

On my disk, 30GB with about 59K cylinders when I view the fdisk between MB and cyl.
Anyway, I found the major problem is that my old PII 350 and motherboard are probably too old. Switch it to a Celeron CPU and newer MB does allow the installation continue with "/" less than 1024 cyinder.

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Edited by: 916641 on Jun 12, 2012 11:53 AM
Edited by: 916641 on Jun 12, 2012 11:54 AM

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