[install-discuss] Error installing b70

[Ryan de Laplante]

I had Solaris 10 11/06 installed on a 10 GB partition, and the rest of 
the drive was not being used.  I booted up the Solaris Express Developer 
Edition b70 DVD and went through the fancy new installer.  When I got to 
the last step and pressed install, it failed immediately.  When I read 
the log I see:

list_ufs_db: The entry rdelaplante was not found in the /etc/passwd 
table<OM>  Could not set user password table


Well, it was supposed to wipe my hard drive and install Solaris before 
trying to look for the new user account that it was supposed to create 
for me.  rdelaplante does not exist in my current Solaris 10 install.  
The new installer asked me to choose a user account to create and I 
chose rdelaplante.


After the installation failed, I couldn't do anything.  There was no 
back button, no try again.  All I could do is press Quit or Help.   I 
would like to see a back button.

After I pressed Quit I ran the install-solaris command again and tried a 
few more ways.  I tried with a different user account that does exist on 
the current installation, I tried telling it to use the partition 
instead of whole disk, etc..  Always the same error for whichever user I 
type in.


Ryan