Re: Installation of Solaris

From: Juergen Keil (jk_at_tools.de)
Date: 04/27/05 

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:54:03 +0200

xitij.shukla@gmail.com writes:

> I have following Error msgs.
> ----------------------------------
> Configuring disk (c1d0)
> - creating fdisk partition table
> - creating Solaris disk table (VTOC)
> - Processing alternate sector slice
>
> Creating X86Boot partition
> - creating filesystems on fdisk partition c1d0p1
>
> Creating and checking UFS file system
> - Creating / (c1d0s0)
>
> ERROR: File systems creation failed for / (c1d0s0)
> ERROR: Could not check or create system critical file systems

The above two error messages appears to be a hint at the problem: for
some reason creating a new filesystem on device /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0 (the
root filesystem) has failed.

- If you're installing with the GUI installer, you can try to open a
terminal window (right click on desktop -> "Terminal" window), and try
the create the root filesystem manually, using the command
"newfs /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0". Does that fail, too? If it fails, what
errors are reported?

- There's a detailed install log during installation that includes
verbose command output for the above commands. IIRC the log file can
be found somewhere in /tmp or a subdirectory in /tmp (file install.log
?). That file should contain more detailed error messages why
creating the root filesystem on device /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 has failed.