I have had similar problems, but solved them by switching to another console (<alt><F2>) and manually running fdisk on each disk. Create an empty sun disk label, and write changes. This is the same process I've had to do with RHL 6.2, so hopefully you have experience with this.
Back in yast, use expert mode to choose mount points/formatting. This should get you through package selection and formatting. I'd advise just doing a basic install- you can always use yast to install more later. It blew up again on me in the end with an error saying can't mount /dev/sda4 at /mnt/ or some such. No problem. I switched to the other console, manually mounted the partition and clicked continue. I had to do this for each partition, but it worked. Good luck! -Brad --- Ralph Hellmig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ... > > I tried to install SuSE 7.3 on an old Ultra 1, > but I suffer from a problem I found in the suse > mailing > list archive again and again, even with kind of > answers, > but they still seem not to help me ... > I have two Seagate SCSI HDDs with about 2 GB in that > machine, > but am new to SCSI architecture and SPARC, but using > SUSE on PC starting with 5.2 ... > > The installation using YAST 2 does not continue > after giving me the already famous message: invalid > partition table, I have to re-partition ... > > I tried this using fdisk with the sun disklabel, but > after > writing the changes are gone ... When I try to do > fdisk > again, the system seems to get hung, if gives an > error message > that the block size is not 512 but 1863323648 in > case of /dev/sda > for /dev/sdb the number is different > > I tried to use the expert mode in Yast2 to delete > the > old (corrupted) partition table, the system gets > some kind > of stalled (pressing ctrl+alt+F4 I can see > somethings like: > VFS: growth_buffers: size 1863323648)... > > I found several answers to this kind of problem in > the list, > but only using the SuSE7.3 Cds I did not find a > solution ... > > I would appreciate any comment which will enlighten > me in my > stupidity ... > > Greetings, > > Ralph > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dr. Ralph Hellmig > Institut fuer Werkstoffkunde und Werkstofftechnik > Agricolastr. 6 > 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld > > Tel.: 05323/72-2748 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
