How to install solaris 8 in 30 GB ata/100 drive ?
807559Dec 5 2001 — edited Dec 9 2001Solaris installation fails saying that there is no suitable hard disk or partition available in my system.
If I run format utility I can see the hard drive but
Solaris does not recognize it's partitions and requires me to enter nr of cyls, heads etc...
I do not go further because it may destroy my whole partitions.
have 30 GB ata/100 Seagate hard drive and there is
a 5 GB empty slot reserved for Solaris installation.
It's just after a 12.5 GB of first primary (with logicals) and just before a 10 GB of another primary.
I've tried followings without success:
1- Leaving 5 GB unpartitioned
2- Created a 5 GB primary partition without format
3- Created a 5 GB ext2 (using linux) partition
4- Created a 5 GB ext2 with ufs format
Everytime I've got same error, Solaris cant find a partition. I suspect it does not recognize hard disks larger than either 8 Gig or 1024 cylinders or ata/100.
What can I do?