[ug-bosug] Problem in solaris installation

[krithika manian]

>
> You mean it stopped at the exact same point - where it was installing
> UUCP in *ALL* your attempts ? I can't recall any known issue.

yes, In all attempts , nearly four ...

> Another thing worth doing is to use the proc tools and figure out whats
> stuck: Open a new terminal. Run a ptree command - see if there is a
> pkgadd command running. Run truss on the pid and figure out what it is
> doing. If its doing a waitpid(), follow its child and keep doing this
> until you see a thread which seems to be blocked. That might be able to
> give us some more clues about what is happening.
>

I could do a ptree and figure out that there was a "pkg-install"
process  running.  I ran trussand found out , It did a waitpid . But
when it reached to the point of installing Networking utilites , the
system hangs totally. I am not able to do anything further.

I switched off the machine and when i booted , I could find out the
grub prompt , and the GNU grub couldn load the Debian GNU/Linux
already installed. I had to do this,

root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz...  root=/dev/hda4
boot

to boot the system , even then it couldn boot and prompted an error
that couldn mount the root partition.