Trevor Watson wrote: > I'm having a peculiar problem with b72 install on both my laptop and Ultra 40 > workstation. > > What I'm trying to do, in both cases, is to run a fresh install, but the > fancy-new-installer(tm) fails in exaclty the same way with the message: > > [b]Unsupported partitioning configuration[/b] > [i]SXDE does not support changing the partition type when > two or more of that type exist on disk...[/i] > > The installer simply won't go any further after that. > > On my laptop, I have one NTFS partition and one existing Solaris partition. > On the workstation, only a Solaris partition. > > Looking in /tmp/gui-install.log, I see the following messages: > > Original partitioning on device c0d0: > Partition 0: type: 7 size: 37189 > Partition 1: type: 191 size: 58196 > Partition 2: type: 0 size: 0 > Partition 3: type: 0 size: 0 > Attempting to set partitioning on device c0d0 > Partition 0: type: 7 size: 37189 > Partition 1: type: 191 size: 58196 > Partition 2: type: 0 size: 0 > Partition 3: type: 0 size: 0 > Orchestrator not happy with partitioning > om_validate_and_resize_disk_partitions () failed. > Reason: OM_UNSUPPORTED_CONFIG > > When I run fdisk on the same disk, it lists only the NTFS and Solaris > partitions. >
Is there anything in /tmp/install_log? > It looks like there are at least two problems here: > 1) The installer is (mistakenly?) thinking that there are additional > zero-size partitions on the disk > 2) The installer is attempting to rewrite the partition information even > though it has not changed. > It's been reported in 6600133, though not diagnosed, and I've also seen it on one other system at an installfest at tech days this week. > Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem so I can install a clean > b72 image? The workaround would be to use the non-SXDE installer, which would be the second item in the GRUB menu. If you want the developer tools, too, you then have to run the DeveloperTools/install_devtools.sh script from the DVD after installation. Dave
