I believe the requirements for 55b is >512MB of RAM. This is a known problem.
Jim On Feb 6, 2007, at 1:11 PM, mary ding wrote: > Sarah and Narendra: > > I had talked to Simon privately and his SunBlade 150 had 512 MB of > Memory. It hangs everytime he tries to do a DVD GUI install. > After he hit the Next button to start the install, it just never > proceeds further. > > I suspect that he ran into this bugid: > > 6512362 1 1 Install hangs on systems with 512 MB of memory in > snv_55a even after 6423854 is integrated. > > His install is successful if he do the text mode with snv_55b: > > ok boot cdrom - text > > I had updated the bugid with his machine information and the > symptoms that he saw. Simon said that he will try snv_56 and get > the data of /tmp if it fails again. > > > > > Sarah Jelinek wrote: >> 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> install-discuss mailing list >> install-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Mary Ding > _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ Member of Technical Staff > _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ UMPK17-307 > _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Menlo Park, CA. 94043 > _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ mary.ding at Eng.Sun.COM > 650-786-8317 (phone) > M I C R O S Y S T E M S > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
