solaris 10 installation on an ultrasparc 10
hi everybody. i'm sure this problem has a simple answer, but i can't find it...
i recently bought an ultrasparc 10 on ebay and installed solaris 10 on it. this worked fine, but seeing as i only had a keyboard at that time and no mouse, i got bored with it quickly and decided to install gentoo. this also worked fine.
now i have a mouse, and i wanted to try out solaris 10 again, but the installation quits early on with the comment that either i don't have a hard drive, or it's formatted incorrectly.
the harddrive is a 9.1GB seagate on the IDE bus. /sbin/format tells me its address as c0t0d0, so the harddrive is there. when i try to format it with /sbin/format, i receive the error 'harddrive in use, segmentation fault'.
on sonnenblen.de, someone suggested setting NOINUSE_CHECK=1 and exporting this before running /sbin/format. but i still get the segmentation fault. incedently, i cannot find the drive in /etc/mnttab, so i assume it isn't in use, although various partitions of type swap are listed.
is there a simple solution? is it possible to format the drive using fdisk, sfdisk, cfdisk et al. under GNU/linux, so that the solaris installer can recognise it? would it be easier to remove the drive, find another sparc system running solaris and ask the owner to format the drive for me?
lots of questions...
howie
