A few thoughts: - install-discuss at opensolaris.org is probably a better place for this question - usually it helps to provide some information on the HW you're using.
eka wrote: > I am installing opensolaris 2008-05 . get something newer, a ton of stuff has been fixed since 2008.05 > My laptop details-- > I have vista and fedora installed on the laptop.I wish to delete fedora and > install opendsolaris in that place.But i am having problem installing ....... > following are the details of the problem . when you boot from the install CD, the installation dialog should offer you a list of partitions you can install to; you probably shouldn't need to be going through the steps you provide below > jack at opensolaris:~$ pfexec format > Searching for disks... > > The device does not support mode page 3 or page 4, > or the reported geometry info is invalid. > WARNING: Disk geometry is based on capacity data. > > The current rpm value 0 is invalid, adjusting it to 3600 > done > > c4t0d0: configured with capacity of 149.03GB > > > AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: > 0. c4t0d0 > /pci at 0,0/pci103c,30cd at 1f,2/disk at 0,0 > Specify disk (enter its number): ^C > jack at opensolaris:~$ fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 > fdisk: Cannot open device /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0. this fails because you forgot "pfexec" HTH Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
