I forgot to add that the GUI actually *freezes* when the progress bar reads 84%, stopping the desktop clock and rendering all icons and menus unclickable--the CDROM drive light and the hard drive light continue to come on and go off at regular intervals as if the installer were still operating. However, this behavior continues for hours. I left it in this state overnight and it was still in the same state in the morning. Pressing Alt-F2, etc. does not bring up a terminal as in a linux install, so I don't know whats going on when it's in this state. The only working key combination when it is in this state is Ctrl-F8 which, I think, pertains to alternate monitors. When I turn off the computer, remove the CDROM and reboot, I get a PBR error. I'm assuming this stands for Primary Boot Record.
Should installation normally take a couple of hours? This seems a bit excessive. It takes an hour and forty minutes to reach the 84% point where the GUI freezes. Should it take so long to transfer files from the CDROM to the hard drive? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
