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Solaris Advanced Installation Guide

Installing Solaris (Initial)


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Problem 

How to Fix the Problem 

Bug ID: 1212370 

This error message does not affect the installation. 

Ignore the message and continue with the installation. 

Problem 

How to Fix the Problem 

x86 based systems only. 

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

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

  1. Start the Solaris Interactive Installation program, as described in "SPARC: How to Perform an Interactive Installation". The Solaris Interactive Installation program will start either a graphical user interface (GUI) or a character user interface (CUI), depending on whether you have a graphics or non-graphics monitor.

 

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

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

  1. If you are using the GUI installation program, open a command tool window for the remaining steps in this procedure. If you are using the CUI installation program, use the system shell for the remaining steps in this procedure.

  2. Start the format program by typing format

  3. 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 program to create a Solaris partition on the disk. (If a Solaris fdisk partition already exists, leave it alone.)

  2. At the format> prompt, type analyze.

 

  1. At the analyze> prompt, type config. This will show you the current settings for a surface analysis. If you want to change any settings, type setup.

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

  1. At the analyze> prompt, type quit.

  2. You may want to specify blocks to re-map. If so, at the format> prompt, type repair.
 

  1. Type quit to quit the format program.

  2. Choose Restart Install from the Workspace menu to resume the GUI installation or type suninstall to resume the CUI installation.