Installation guide

Problem How to Fix the Problem
9. At the analyze> prompt, type config. This will show
you the current settings for a surface analysis. If you want
to change any settings, type setup.
10. At the analyze> prompt, type read, write,orcompare
for the type of surface analysis to be performed. If format
finds bad blocks, it will re-map them.
11. At the analyze> prompt, type quit.
12. You may want to specify blocks to re-map. If so, at the
format> prompt, type repair.
13. Type quit to quit the format program.
14. Choose Restart Install from the Workspace menu to
resume the GUI installation or type suninstall to resume
the CUI installation.
Installing Solaris (Upgrade)
Error Messages
No upgradeable disks
Problem How to Fix the Problem
Bug ID: 1191792
A swap entry in the /etc/vfstab file is causing the
upgrade to fail.
Comment out the following lines in the /etc/
vfstab file:
All swap files and slices on disks not being
upgraded
Swap files that are no longer present
Any unused swap slices
General Problems
Problem How to Fix the Problem
The upgrade fails because the Solaris installation
program could not mount metadevices on the system.
Comment out all metadevices in the system’s /etc/
vfstab file. The upgrade option does not support
metadevices.
7-6 Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) ♦ August 1997