Apparently the opensource version of solaris 10 does allow you to have VM setup, I have not tried it myself but am looking into it.
You can look here.
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/
I had this problem on a Blade 100 after I had installed linux on it.
Solaris would not reinstall and I was getting the same errors as you, I resolved it by doing the following.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 count=1024
HTH
Steve
allesmüller
Thanks for the extra info, and no I had not set it to call teh she function. I dod wonder how it worked but decided that I would try it as is.
If you could tell me how you did it tomorrow maybe I would appreciate it, I am not a shell programmer so am unsure how to do it.
Cheers
Steve
Hi Allesmueller
please can you show me your finish Script as I have added the above code to mine and it has not made any difference.
I would mail you directly but I can't seem to find anyway of viewling your profile or sending you a mail.
Cheers
Steve
steve dot luther at hp dot com
Yep tried that and it only gave me 2 options and one was the disk and label installed and another option.
If I selected the disk installed it told me formated ok and no defect list available.
Anyway I have fixed it thanks I did what Annihilannic suggested with the dd command.
Cheers
Steve
Will give it a go thanks.
The thing that is confusing me is that I can use format to create and modify partitions and labels etc but I can not newfs any of the file systems I create.
Hi Annihilannic
it is not an x86 system it is a Blade 100 Sparc workstation.
I have tried everything I can think of including using the label command but nothing seems to work.
I am still playing around with it.
I have deleted the format.dat file aswell and still it makes no difference.
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