Hi Terry,
the issue seems to be that the disk is not partitioned yet. To fix that
open a terminal and run 'format'. It will ask for a disk (I suppose you
have just one). Then type 'fdisk' and it will ask if it should create a
100% Solaris parition. Say yes.
With this, you get the partition table and Solaris label (VTOC). Now,
the installer should proceed just fine.
And please take a minute and fill a bug report against the installer on
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/
Regards,
Milan Cermak
Dne 14.03.11 15:41, Terry Schima napsal(a):
Hi,
I can't seem to get Oracle's OpSol to install. BTW, OpSol 2009.06 installs
fine, and reboots fine. (I guess it's fine, not being a Unix person, I don't
know what to check for after first boot). I've tried booting it (11) from the
USB key and the CD. Both boot and work fine. But the gui-install lets me get
all the way done, then starts to do its thing, but then reports it failed
before the progress bar leaves 0%. Gparted loads, acts like it will change the
disk, but does nothing (yes, I typed in the root password). My hardware is:
Medion laptop with: AMD x2 1700Mhz, 4GB ram, 320GB blank HDD, on board nVidia,
etc. Most of the hardware shows up in the list, no problems there -- that I
can see. Here is the log.
<TDDM_E Mar 14 17:40:01> ddm_drive_get_ctype():Can't get DM_CONTROLLER assoc.
w/ DM_DRIVE, err=0
<OM Mar 14 17:40:01> Ignoring c9t0d134583970 because of bad Geometry
<OM Mar 14 17:40:03> System reports enough physical memory for installation,
swap is optional
<OM Mar 14 17:42:33> disk currently doesn't contain any partition
<OM Mar 14 17:42:33> disk partition info changed
<OM Mar 14 17:42:33> No disk partitions defined prior to install
<OM Mar 14 09:42:47> Timezone setting will be TZ=Singapore
<OM Mar 14 09:42:47> Set timezone
<OM Mar 14 09:43:35> Disk was changed
<OM Mar 14 09:43:35> Disk contains valid Solaris partition
<OM Mar 14 09:43:35> whole_disk = 0
<OM Mar 14 09:43:35> diskname set = c8t0d0
<OM Mar 14 09:43:35> Set fdisk attrs
<OM Mar 14 09:43:35> Set zfs root pool device
<OM Mar 14 09:43:35> creating zpool
<TIZFM_E Mar 14 09:43:36> zfs: Couldn't create ZFS pool
<OM Mar 14 09:43:36> Could not create ZFS root pool target
<GUI_E Mar 14 09:43:36> Installation failed in Target Instantiation module
<GUI_E Mar 14 09:43:36> Please see previous messages for more details
<GUI_E Mar 14 09:43:36> Installation failed in Target Instantiation module
<GUI_E Mar 14 09:43:36> Please see previous messages for more details
Do I need to use something like SystemRescueCD's parted command, and "mklabel sun" to get
the disk ready? That doesn't make sense, since 2009.06 has no problem manipulating the disk. And
more importantly, since I can't deal with compiling, configuring, making, etc. -- if there are any
errors) Should I just forget Opsol 11 (since ntgs-3g doesn't work without re compiling the code)
and stay with 2009.06? Thanks. I don't mind looking this stuff up and learning, but I find that
learning Unix is extremely difficult because I don't know the "basic technical" language
(don't know where to start either) and then each variant has its own different dir structure,
file/program names, etc.
gentisle
--
The amount of things I don't know is enormous.
But I'm grateful for every bit of information.
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