I tried to install opensolaris 11 from the live CD to the hard disk. The installation failed with the following log messages:
<OM Dec 3 20:57:16> Timezone setting will be TZ=UTC <OM Dec 3 20:57:16> Set timezone <TDDM_E Dec 3 20:57:16> ddm_drive_get_name(): Can't get alias name, err=9 <OM Dec 3 20:57:17> System reports enough physical memory for installation, swap is optional <OM Dec 3 20:57:35> disk partition info not changed <OM Dec 3 20:57:47> Timezone setting will be TZ=GB <OM Dec 3 20:57:47> Set timezone <OM Dec 3 20:58:23> Disk was changed <OM Dec 3 20:58:23> Disk contains valid Solaris partition <OM Dec 3 20:58:23> whole_disk = 0 <OM Dec 3 20:58:23> diskname set = c4d0 <OM Dec 3 20:58:23> Set fdisk attrs <OM Dec 3 20:58:23> Set zfs root pool device <OM Dec 3 20:58:23> creating zpool <OM Dec 3 20:58:28> /usr/sbin/zfs get -Hp -o value available rpool <OM Dec 3 20:58:28> Creating swap and dump on ZFS volumes <OM Dec 3 20:59:02> TI process completed successfully <OM Dec 3 20:59:02> Transfer process initiated <TRANSFER_MOD Dec 3 20:59:09> -- Starting transfer process, Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:59:09 +0000 -- <TRANSFER_MOD Dec 3 20:59:09> Building cpio file lists <TRANSFER_MOD Dec 3 20:59:09> Scanning //. <TRANSFER_MOD Dec 3 20:59:27> Scanning //usr <TRANSFER_MOD Dec 3 20:59:56> Scanning //opt <TRANSFER_MOD Dec 3 20:59:57> Scanning //dev <TRANSFER_MOD Dec 3 20:59:57> Scanning /mnt/misc/. <TRANSFER_MOD Dec 3 20:59:58> Scanning /mnt/pkg/. <TRANSFER_MOD Dec 3 20:59:58> Scanning /.cdrom/. <TRANSFER_MOD Dec 3 21:00:00> Beginning cpio actions <TRANSFER_MOD_E Dec 3 21:02:20> File operation error: <TRANSFER_MOD_E Dec 3 21:02:20> Traceback (most recent call last): File "./transfer_mod.py", line 1265, in tm_perform_transfer tobj.perform_transfer(args) File "./transfer_mod.py", line 758, in perform_transfer self.cpio_transfer_entire_directory() File "./transfer_mod.py", line 597, in cpio_transfer_entire_directory open(fl, "w").close() IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/a/usr/X11/share/X11/locale/C/Compose' <TRANSFER_MOD Dec 3 21:02:20> IOERROR <OM Dec 3 21:02:20> Transfer failed with error 19 Possibly related information: 1. during boot of the live CD I chose language / locale information appropriate to the UK 2. during installation, when language "English" is chosen, the only availabe location is "United States" -- This message posted from opensolaris.org