Hi Simon, When you restart the installer with install-solaris, does it ever complete after you have answered the questions again? Just wondering if it hangs every time.
thanks, sarah **** Narendra Kumar S.S wrote: > On 1/29/07, *Simon Bond* <s.bond at zen.co.uk <mailto:s.bond at zen.co.uk>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > My Sun Blade 150 is currently running Solaris 10 11/06. > I'm now trying to install N55b from DVD. > The DVD boots OK and I get to answer all installation questions, > right up to the final "Summary" screen. When I click "Next" I get > a progress Window which says "Initializing installation 0%". > Nothing ever happens beyond this point. > > > How long did you wait? > And did you check the log files for any errors? > > -Narendra > > The mouse still works. > I can close the installation window and from a shell I can run > "install-solaris" to begin the installation procedure again. So I > know the box hasn't crashed. > > I've tried loads of different options including clean install, > upgrade, preserve existing data, keep disk layout the same (6GB OS > and the rest for /export/home) and just having one big 40GB / > partition. None of the options seem to make any difference. > > I'm using the normal Sun mouse, but the keyboard is a PC keyboard > going through a Belkin screen switch and a Belkin sun adapter. I > can't believe this is the cause... but can swap it out for the > real Sun keyboard if required. > > I'm fairly happy that the DVD is OK because I used Nero to burn > the DVD and verified the burn. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should try next?? > In the meantime, I'm going to try n54 to see if the same happens. > > Thanks > > Simon Bond > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org> > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > <mailto:install-discuss at opensolaris.org> > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > > > > > -- > Warm Regards, > Narendra > > Visit my blogs at: > http://ssnarendrakumar.blogspot.com/ > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ssnkumar > <http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ssnkumar> > ___ ___ __ _ > / __/ / __/ / | / / > _\ \ _ \ \ / /| |/ / > \___/ \___/ /_/ |__/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >
