On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:52 AM, eka <mouryan3108 at gmail.com> wrote: > I am installing opensolaris 2008-05 . > > My laptop details-- > I have vista and fedora installed on the laptop.I wish to delete fedora and > install opendsolaris in that place.But i am having problem installing ....... > following are the details of the problem . > > > jack at opensolaris:~$ pfexec format > Searching for disks... > > The device does not support mode page 3 or page 4, > or the reported geometry info is invalid. > WARNING: Disk geometry is based on capacity data. > > The current rpm value 0 is invalid, adjusting it to 3600 > done > > c4t0d0: configured with capacity of 149.03GB > > > AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: > 0. c4t0d0 > /pci at 0,0/pci103c,30cd at 1f,2/disk at 0,0 > Specify disk (enter its number): ^C > jack at opensolaris:~$ fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 > fdisk: Cannot open device /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0. > > Please do help me in installing opensolaris.
pfexec fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 ???? you need root privileges to fdisk or format (and you correctly used pfexec there) to work on a disk.
