On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Aubrey Li wrote: > Yes, this is a known bug if you are using x86 and GUI installation. > See below: > ======================================================== > x86: Solaris Installation GUI Might Fail When You Install Solaris > Flash Archive (6208656)
I have known about this bug for a long time, that's one of the bugs I filed. I don't know if it will be fixed, since caiman/dwarf will change the landscape. If you use a text console install, the archive works fine. There used to be another problem creating the flash archive, where the optimized libraries that are mounted could create an archive that was only installable to similar hardware. IOW, if you created on 64-bit x86 (amd64, appologees to Intel;-), it would have the optimized libc.so.1, and would install to another 64-bit system and run fine, but if you tried to install to a 32-bit, it wouldn't. I believe that Bill Kucharski fixed that and I tested it a while ago...the workaround to create it was umount the optimized libc.so.1 when creating. I think flarcreate handles that now, but it's been so long since I have created flash archives, I'm not positive. I used to create flash archives when there was more need for them, nowdays Solaris has much of the software that I used to setup and configure in the system, like OpenOffice/StarOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Flash, RealPlayer, etc...we even have wifi these days.;-) -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
