WL 7.0 SP3 - No BEA HOME directories found.

I am trying to install sp3 on wl7.0 on solaris 8 sparc.
The environment is set but can anyone enlighten me why it cannot find any BEA
home directories even after BEAHOME, WL_HOME,...... are all set ?
Attached is the log.
Thank you.
regards,
arjun
[sp3_install.log]

Arjun <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for your help. Ensuring beahomelist is in the bea directory
under my login home continues the install. Mallik,
From my experience, under root (/), there must exist a "/bea"
directory with (of course) the beahomelist file. Your path appears to
place it under $HOME, which on many systems is something like:
/export/home/exampleuser
...or...
/home/exampleuser
So, I'd recommend creating a (root-level) /bea directory, and placing
your beahomelist there. You may need your system administrator's
permission. Hope that helps!!
Brian J. Mitchell
Systems Administrator, MIS
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Atlanta, GA 30329 USA
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