[rescue] Solaris for PrimePower 250?

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:26:01AM -0700, Ian Finder wrote:
> It's reasonably self explanatory on Solaris:
> 
> # format
> 
> Follow prompts.

Yes, that's true. But I was talking about how to open another shell from
inside the installer.

> 
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:21 AM,  <microcode at zoho.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:11:26PM -0400, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> >> " From: microcode at zoho.com
> >> "
> >> " On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:48:21AM -0500, Dr. Robert Pasken wrote:
> >> " > If the disks do not have a Sun format label you will get a message
> >> " > about no disks, BUT you should also see a message to the effect that
> >> " > the disks are unlabeled. Then usual practive I followed was to boot
> >> " > single user writeable and format the disks. That usually solved that
> >> " > kind of problem.
> >> "
> >> " I think you should be able to do that once the installer exits back to the
> >> " shell without having to boot into single user mode.
> >>
> >> you don't even have to wait.  before you get to that failure, open a
> >> shell window alongside the install one and format them there, then
> >> continue with the install.
> >
> > Uh, it might help if you tell him how to do that :-)
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