The new SNV 70 GUI installer looks nice and moves right along. But. I can't find the "advanced options" button that lets me decide how to slice my solaris partition. And the minimum size of 8G is a pain. I'm installing multiple (throw-away) images under VMWare on a ThinkPad T61 and don't have drive space to burn :( For that matter, even 8G gets flagged as too small until i touch the size by lowering it to 7.9 and raising back to 8g, then it's big enough...
Worse, if just go w/the default layout, which isn't _too_ bad, it fails immediately with "The entry "my_user_name" was not found in the /etc/passwd table". If I run it again and leave out the user entry, it fails w/a simple "Could not create install profile". Rats. The above is w/the Developer Edition grub selection. I also tried the vanilla Solaris option in hopes of getting the old installer. I did get the old installer (I think) but it is currently hung with the occasional "/sbin/install-ui-start: fork failed - too many processes". Grrr. SNV 64a installed OK on this laptop, in VMWare and natively. 67 and 69 installed OK in VMWare.I was hoping to run 70 for a while to get around a smeared font problem in gnome-desktop in 67 and 69. I hesitate to report any of this as bugs since I may (again) be overlooking something. I see others don't like the fixed slice thing. Anyone else seeing fatal install regressions? Bill This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
