[SUMMARY] Installation problem with Solaris 8

From: David Foster (foster@dim.ucsd.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 17:09:21 CDT


Wanted to know if some of the installation problems encountered when
using the "Install" CD from Solaris 8 2/00 had been corrected in
later releases.

Apparently the 6/00 edition of Solaris has most of these bugs fixed,
including a problem with sys-unconfig. I had experienced problems
formatting the boot disk.

Thanks to: Bill Fay and Tim Evans.

Dave Foster

>
> I had previously had problems with an installation of Solaris 8
> (February 2000 Edition), and the solution provided to me by
> this wonderful list was NOT to use the "Installation CD", but
> to use the "Solaris 8 1 of 2" CD for the installation (how intuitive!).
>
> Well, now I want to create an install server using newer Solaris 8
> CDs (not yet sure which exact revision), and I would like to know if
> these problems were corrected in later revisions of the software.
>
> (FYI, the problem I was having was the installation program simply
> stating "Failure: cannot format disk").
>
> Anyone have any information on this?
>
> Dave Foster

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