[rescue] Solaris 8 on SS20

[Ken Hansen]

Thought: How big is the /usr/openwin partition?

Have you tried installing a small, core system to make sure verything is OK
(on the 1.2 Gig HD)?

If that works, then you could simply fan your install out over the
additional HD after it comes up...

I suspect a filesystem is too large on the 9 Gig HD, but not sure...

HTH,

Ken


s at avoidant.org.ominsky.net wrote:

> Hello,
>
> First, I hope Bill is OK.
>
> For those who don't keep track of such things, I recently acquired a
> SPARCserver 20. For the sake of completeness, it's got 4 50Mhz
> processors, 304M of RAM, a 4M VSIMM, one 1.2G hard drive (boot) and one
> 9G drive.
>
> Trying to load Solaris 8 thereon, the installation dies when it tries to
> create the slices. The errors go like so:
>
> Configuring disk (c0t1d0)
>         -Creating Solaris disk label (VTOC)
>
> Configuring disk (c0t3d0)
>         -Creating Solaris disk label (VTOC)
>
> Creating and checking UFS file systems
>         -Creating /usr/openwin (c0t1d0s3)
> With a block size of 8192 minimum bytes per inode is 5884
> Minimum bytes per inode is 5884
> With 16065 sectors oer cylinder, minimum cylinders per group is 16
> This requires the fragment size to be changed from 1024 to 4096
> Please re-run mkfs with correscted parameters
>
> ERROR: File sysytem creation failed for /usr/openwin (c0t1d0s3)
>
> ERROR: Could not check or create system critical file systems
>
> ERROR: Could not update disks with new configuration
>
> ERROR: System installation failed
>
> ...
> More information:
>         Log file: /tmp/install_log
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> So? Ideas? If I could run mkfs by hand, I could do what it wants. But
> the installer does everything behind a gui. How do I get around it?