x86: suninstall Exits When Choosing to Save Service Partition and Create Solaris Partition (4832216)

If you use the suninstall installation program to install the Solaris 9 4/03 (x86 Platform Edition) operating environment on a system with an existing service partition, the installation program might exit. This problem occurs under the following conditions:

• You use the suninstall program to install the Solaris 9 4/03 operating environment.

• During the installation, you choose to lay out a disk with an existing service partition, but no Solaris fdisk partition.

• On the Create Solaris fdisk Partition panel, you choose the Save service partition, create Solaris fdisk partition option.

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.

• To manually create a Solaris fdisk partition during the suninstall program, follow these steps:

  1. When the suninstall installation program asks you to choose a method to create the Solaris fdisk partition, choose the Manually create fdisk partitions option.

  2. Preserve the service partition and create the Solaris fdisk partition.

  3. Complete the installation.

• To manually create a Solaris fdisk partition by using the fdisk command, follow these steps:

  1. Exit from the suninstall installation program by pressing the F5 function key.

  2. Open a terminal window.

     See the fdisk(1M) man page for more information on creating fdisk partitions.

  3. Restart the suninstall installation program by typing the following command:

     # suninstall

  4. Complete the installation.