Ryan de Laplante wrote:
> I had Solaris 10 11/06 installed on a 10 GB partition, and the rest of
> the drive was not being used. I booted up the Solaris Express Developer
> Edition b70 DVD and went through the fancy new installer. When I got to
> the last step and pressed install, it failed immediately. When I read
> the log I see:
>
> list_ufs_db: The entry rdelaplante was not found in the /etc/passwd
> table<OM> Could not set user password table
>
>
> Well, it was supposed to wipe my hard drive and install Solaris before
> trying to look for the new user account that it was supposed to create
> for me. rdelaplante does not exist in my current Solaris 10 install.
> The new installer asked me to choose a user account to create and I
> chose rdelaplante.
According to passwd(4) the user name is limited to 8 characters.
Did you try with a shorter user name?
Erik
>
> After the installation failed, I couldn't do anything. There was no
> back button, no try again. All I could do is press Quit or Help. I
> would like to see a back button.
>
> After I pressed Quit I ran the install-solaris command again and tried a
> few more ways. I tried with a different user account that does exist on
> the current installation, I tried telling it to use the partition
> instead of whole disk, etc.. Always the same error for whichever user I
> type in.
>
>
> Ryan
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