[ug-bosug] Really strange issue

[Pradhap Devarajan]

Was the media good ? . open a new terminal and do a
* dmesg
* prstat
Should give you some clue where things are failing..

~ Pradhap.D


Abhishek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just upgrading to the Solaris Express b64 yesterday. I formatted 
> my spare 80GB HDD and created a 10 GB partition for Solaris to install. 
> I tried to configure the network from there itself (With the options 
> DHCP, IPv6:no) it said "one moment please" and then sort of hung.
>
> So I just closed the window after which the normal installer started. I 
> chose the partition and the installer just started fine. This was at 
> 1:30 in the night, so I decided I might as well go to sleep while it 
> installed. I know from previous experience this takes around 40 to 50 mins.
>
> Anyway, so when I got up today to my surprise it had only completed 
> installing 60% or so. I mean whatever I was seeing seemed to be fine, it 
> was not stuck and it was moving along - but really really slowly. I 
> finally had to manually shut it down, and now need to investigate 
> further into what could've happened. Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Abhishek
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