Hi,
after tinkering around a little with Solaris 9 I am starting to understand Solaris a bit better adn have managed to create DNS primary and secondary servers using it, also SMTP mail relay server with Postfix in my secondary DNS.
I have 3 Netra T1's which are meant for me to learn Solaris better since I am a Newbee with this OS.
On one of my Netra's I had a Debian linux install on an 18GB hard drive of which now I am trying to reformat to use Solaris 10 on there to explore it's features over Solaris 9.
My problem however is this, upon install the installer can't detect any filesystem appropriate on my hard drive?
I have been over this back and forth in a previous post of which I'm finally starting to get the hang of but don't seem to be able to work this one out!
What I have done is this:
gone into shell mode of the installer after it broke out due to it saying - "hardware failiour or no filesystem detected"
used the format tool with a low level format to erase the disk.
#format>format
then used the partition command to create a partition table.
I assigned all the space to one partition on slice 0 but needed an 8MB reserved partition on slice 8, which I created in expert mode.
then I labled the disk and used the verify command which the partition information was fine and no Bad Magic Number errors!
after which I used the newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 to create the file system on the disk.
When I try the installer again though I get the same error??
I also used the prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 command to verify and it comes up with the partition table as was put on the disk 0 and 8 with the relative sizes.
Am I mixing up Solaris 9 conventions here since through Google it showed the same way, also from the Sun documentation it seemed to suggest the same thing although pointing more to a graphical install but since my servers are headless I can't use that.
Although I did assume that once a readable file system and formatting scheme was applied to the disk that the Solaris partitioner would automatically detect and re-create the disk system as required for the install??
I'm lost! If anyone can be of assistance that would be great as I'm still very new to Solaris
[edit]The partition slice 0 starts from sector 34 not 0 which means that SILO may still be installed in the MBR? I did have this issue on x86's sometimes when swapping between linux and windows! Don't know about SPARC though.
