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Old 04-15-2009, 11:30 AM   #1
funmik65
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Solaris Installation on VMware failed.


hi,
installing solaris 10 on a vmware and then it hung with the following errors

installing boot information
-updating boot environment configure file
-installing boot blocks (c0d0|)
-installing boot blocks (/dev/rdsk/c0d0s0)
cannot open/stat device /dev/rdsk/c0d0s2
ERROR: installboot (1M)failed
ERROR: could not install boot blocks
could not install boot blocks_

Solaris is the only Operating system running on the VMware and i've never used a Solaris GRUB.

i need to have this installation done ASAP.Can anyone help? what do i do from here to have the installation done properly?
 
Old 04-15-2009, 12:36 PM   #2
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Which Solaris 10 release are you using?

You may need to use format and use the fdisk option to create a Solaris partition. Normally it prompts you with how much space to be applied to the Solaris partition during the installation on a new disk (in your case, a new .vmdk file).
 
Old 04-16-2009, 02:10 AM   #3
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thanks for the response.
i'm using an X86 and i already created an fdisk partition. i had allocated 512 ram to the VMWare and 60GB Disk space. i created the fdisk partition as

/ -50,000
swap -1300
overlap -1700
.
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/export/home - 7000

i intend to have oracle installed on this solaris after it must have been installed.
 
  


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