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Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide

Installing Solaris 8 (Initial)


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Bug ID: 1212370 

This error message does not affect the installation. 

Ignore the message and continue with the installation. 

Problem 

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IA based systems only

IDE disk drives do not automatically map out bad blocks like other drives supported by Solaris software. Before installing Solaris 8 on an IDE disk, you might want to perform a surface analysis on the disk.

To perform surface analysis on an IDE disk, follow this procedure: 

  1. Start the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program, as described in "IA: Using the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program". The Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program starts either a graphical user interface (GUI) or a character user interface (CUI), depending on whether you have a graphics or non-graphics monitor.

  2. When either the GUI or CUI program starts, enter information and select Continue on the first few screens.

  3. When you see the Installing Solaris - Initial screen, select Exit and exit the installation.

  4. If you are using the GUI version of the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program, open a command tool window for the remaining steps in this procedure.

    If you are using the CUI version of the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program, use the system shell for the remaining steps in this procedure.

  5. Start the format program by typing format.

  6. Specify the IDE disk drive on which you want to perform a surface analysis.

Note -

IDE drives do not include a target number. The IDE drive naming convention is cxdy, where cx is the controller number and dy is the device number.
 

  1. At the format> prompt, type fdisk. Use the fdisk command to create a Solaris 8 partition on the disk. (If a Solaris 8 fdisk partition already exists, leave it alone.)

  2. At the format> prompt, type analyze.

  3. At the analyze> prompt, type config. The current settings for a surface analysis are displayed. If you want to change settings, type setup.

  4. At the analyze> prompt, type read, write, or compare for the type of surface analysis to be performed. If format finds bad blocks, it re-maps them.

  5. At the analyze> prompt, type quit.

  6. Do you want to specify blocks to re-map?

    If no, go to the next step. If yes, at the format> prompt, type repair.

  7. Type quit.

    The format program quits.

  8. Choose Restart Install on the Workspace menu to resume the GUI installation, or type suninstall to resume the CUI installation.