New Hard Disk Problem

I have a 9 gig Barracuda that I thought I'd try in place of my 2 gig
Barracuda in the Sun Ultra1 I recently acquired. I booted my 5.7 Server
install CD and started the installation process.

I'm used to DOS/Win9X where you partition and format, but I get the
impression that should be handled by in Solaris installation process.

I noticed some error message about ROM, but continued. After making some
choices in the Solaris installation, I get a message
"exiting (caught signal 8)"
" type suninstall to restart"

So, keeping in mind that I know very little about Solaris, and just a little
about Unix in general, what is going wrong? Does it not support all SCSI
hard disks?!
-Paul

Paul Grammens wrote:
>
> I'm used to DOS/Win9X where you partition and format, but I get the
> impression that should be handled by in Solaris installation process.

Yes, the installer will repartition either automatically or
manually based on your desired preferences (the latter is
better since the defaults aren't very optimal any more).

> I noticed some error message about ROM, but continued. After making some
> choices in the Solaris installation, I get a message
> "exiting (caught signal 8)"
> " type suninstall to restart"

Boot of disk 1 of 2 rather than the install CD. Can you
elaborate on the ROM message?

> So, keeping in mind that I know very little about Solaris, and just a little
> about Unix in general, what is going wrong? Does it not support all SCSI
> hard disks?!

Well, there's SCSI and then there's SCSI. Your disk should
be the correct type. But check up on HVD/LVD issues since
the wrong type will damage something.

-am © 2003

"Anthony Mandic" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Paul Grammens wrote:
> >
> > I'm used to DOS/Win9X where you partition and format, but I get the
> > impression that should be handled by in Solaris installation process.
>
> Yes, the installer will repartition either automatically or
> manually based on your desired preferences (the latter is
> better since the defaults aren't very optimal any more).
>
> > I noticed some error message about ROM, but continued. After making some
> > choices in the Solaris installation, I get a message
> > "exiting (caught signal 8)"
> > " type suninstall to restart"
>
> Boot of disk 1 of 2 rather than the install CD. Can you
> elaborate on the ROM message?
>
> > So, keeping in mind that I know very little about Solaris, and just a
little
> > about Unix in general, what is going wrong? Does it not support all
SCSI
> > hard disks?!
>
> Well, there's SCSI and then there's SCSI. Your disk should
> be the correct type. But check up on HVD/LVD issues since
> the wrong type will damage something.
>

OK, I got it working. I found a reference to the "format" command in one of
the books, and fumbled thru it. After that the OS loaded.

Perhaps this was caused by the drive being used, with unknown data/OS on it.
I didn't have the proper SCSI connectors to try it with one of my Macs or
PC's, so I have no idea what was on there.

Now I just need the mouse I ordered to arrive. Maybe Monday!
-Paul

Paul Grammens wrote:

> OK, I got it working. I found a reference to the "format" command in one of
> the books, and fumbled thru it. After that the OS loaded.
>
> Perhaps this was caused by the drive being used, with unknown data/OS on it.
> I didn't have the proper SCSI connectors to try it with one of my Macs or
> PC's, so I have no idea what was on there.

If there was no disk label (or one corrupted by use in a PC)
you would have seen a message about "bad magic number". Running
format off the CD and recreating a label is the correct procedure.

-am © 2003

"Anthony Mandic" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Paul Grammens wrote:
>
> > OK, I got it working. I found a reference to the "format" command in
one of
> > the books, and fumbled thru it. After that the OS loaded.
> >
> > Perhaps this was caused by the drive being used, with unknown data/OS on
it.
> > I didn't have the proper SCSI connectors to try it with one of my Macs
or
> > PC's, so I have no idea what was on there.
>
> If there was no disk label (or one corrupted by use in a PC)
> you would have seen a message about "bad magic number". Running
> format off the CD and recreating a label is the correct procedure.
>

Yes, that's what happened. It prompted me for a label after I gave it the
"format" command.
-Paul