Installation Issues

This chapter describes problems that relate to the installation of the Solaris 9 operating environment. For late-breaking Solaris installation issues that were identified too late to be included in these release notes, refer to the Solaris 9 (SPARC Platform Edition) Release Notes in the Solaris 9 Release and Installation Collection on http://docs.sun.com.

Issue You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 Software From DVD

Booting From the Solaris 9 DVD

The Solaris 9 operating environment is now available on DVD. To install or upgrade from DVD, insert the Solaris 9 DVD into the DVD-ROM drive and boot the system from the ok prompt with the following command.

ok boot cdrom

Bugs You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 Software From DVD

Boot From Solaris DVD Fails on Systems With Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM (4467424)

If your system has a Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM drive with firmware revision 1007, the system cannot boot from the Solaris 9 DVD.

Workaround: Apply patch 111649-03, or later version, to update the Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM drive's firmware. Patch 111649-03 is included on the Solaris 9 Supplement CD in the following directory.

DVD_Firmware/Patches

See the README file in this directory for instructions on installing the patch. Be sure to read and follow all the cautions and warnings in this README file before you install the patch.

Cannot Access Data on Solaris 9 DVD in Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 Operating Environments (4511090)

If your system is running the Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7 operating environment, Volume Management incorrectly mounts the Solaris 9 DVD. The Solaris 9 DVD can be mounted, but the data is inaccessible. As a result, you cannot set up an install server, perform a Live Upgrade, or access any data on the media.

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.

• Apply the patches appropriate for your system.

  Table 1-1 DVD patches for the Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 Operating Environments

  Release	Patch ID
  Solaris 2.6 operating environment	107618-03
  Solaris 7 operating environment	107259-03

• Manually mount the Solaris 9 DVD. Do not use Volume Management to mount the Solaris 9 DVD. Follow these steps.

  1. Become superuser.

  2. Stop Volume Management.

     # /etc/init.d/volmgt stop

  3. Manually mount the DVD.

     # mkdir /mnt1 # mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /mnt1

  4. Verify that the DVD is mounted and the data is accessible.

     # cd /mnt1 # ls

     The system returns the following information if the DVD is correctly mounted.

     Copyright Solaris_9

Solaris Custom JumpStart Bug

Default Solaris JumpStart Profile Might Not Install Multiple Locales on Small Disks (4502007)

If you use the default Solaris JumpStart™ profile on the Solaris 9 media to install multiple locales on a system with a small disk, the installation might fail. This problem might occur under the following conditions.

• You use the default Solaris JumpStart profile to install any locale other than the C locale on a system with a 2.1 Gbyte disk

• You use the default Solaris JumpStart profile to install two or more locales on a system with a 4 Gbyte disk

Installation Bugs That Occur During an Installation From Solaris 9 Software 1 of 2 CD

re-preinstall Cannot Find /cdrom/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot During Standalone Boot From Solaris 9 Software 1 of 2 CD (4520635)

If you perform a standalone boot from the Solaris 9 Software (SPARC Platform Edition) 1 of 2 CD, then execute the re-preinstall utility, the following error message is displayed.

/cdrom/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot: does not exist

In the Solaris 9 release, the Solaris_9/Tools/Boot utility is a symbolic link to a file that is not included on the Solaris 9 CD media.

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.

• Follow these steps to boot the system from the Solaris 9 DVD.

  1. Boot in single-user mode from the Solaris 9 DVD.

     ok boot cdrom -s

  2. Use the re-preinstall utility to install Solaris JumpStart software on the system.

     For more information on the re-preinstall utility, see the man page re-preinstall(1M).

• Follow these steps to boot from the network.

  1. Insert the Solaris 9 Software (SPARC Platform Edition) 1 of 2 CD in the CD-ROM drive.

  2. Use the setup_install_server utility to create an install server on the system.

     For more information on how to create an install server, see the man page install_scripts(1M).

  3. Boot from the network in single-user mode.

     ok boot net -s

  4. Use the re-preinstall utility to install Solaris JumpStart™ software on the system.

     For more information on the re-preinstall utility, see the man page re-preinstall(1M).

Warnings May Occur When a File System Is Created (4189127)

One of the following warning messages might be displayed when a file system is created during installation.

Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (87) >= data blocks (63) in last cylinder group. This implies 1008 sector(s) cannot be allocated.

Or

Warning: 1 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated

The warning occurs when the size of the file system that is being created does not correlate exactly to the space on the disk that is being used. This discrepancy can result in unused space on the disk that is not incorporated into the indicated file system. This unused space is not available for use by other file systems.

Workaround: Ignore the warning message.