[indiana-discuss] Failure to install RC2a IBM x40

[jan damborsky]

Hi Thomas,


Thomas Hentrich wrote:
> I get the same error while installing Indiana from the LiveCD.
> Setting (1)
> The installer stopped at 28% giving the '/a/./.livecd' error.
> Setting (2)
> I also tried installing it within a 20GB and 4GB partition at the beginning of the hard disk. Both attempts failed too. I did all this on a Lenovo 3000 N100, 2GB RAM, and a 100GB hard disk. The latter was partitioned as follows:
> sda1: Windows Vista
> sda2: Ubuntu 8.04
> sda3: Linux Swap
> sda4: Solaris
> The Solaris partition was initially created between Windows and Ubuntu (setting (1)). For Setting (2) it was moved at the very beginning of the HDD. But it always was sda4. All partitions were primary ones.
>
> Any help and suggestions are more than welcome. I would really like to get Indiana out of the virtual machine it currently runs on.

You might be hitting one the issues mentioned in release notes:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/rn3/

The symptoms seem to be similar to the ones described in 6690194
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6690194

In order to be able to better determine why your installation
failed and find out appropriate work around, could you please
provide following information ?

[1] full partition configuration reported by Linux or Solaris fdisk commands
for both cases

* for Linux
# fdisk -l <device_name>

* for Solaris
# fdisk -W - <device_name>p0

[2] Invoke installer from terminal in debug mode and please
attach full /tmp/install_log file after installer fails.

$ export LS_DBG_LVL=4
$ pfexec /usr/bin/gui-install

Thank you,
Jan