Solaris 8 Webinstall, won't configure net

2007-12-25 9:55:00

Apparently, this is a very common, possibly universal, problem.

In general, the responses were to either use the older installation by booting

the Solaris software disk 1, or to install netless and configure the network

manually afterwards.

Thanks to:

Andrew Sit

Doug Otto

Daniel Lorenzini

Chris Graves

Adam Zimmerman

Thomas Carter

Bruce R. Zimmer

Argun B. Gorener

and, I'm sure, others who will be sending me similar answers.

If I get a solution, I'll post another summary.

-----Original Message-----

From: System Prestidigitator [mailto:bolson@u.washington.edu]

Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 3:45 PM

To: sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu

Subject: Solaris 8 Webinstall, won't configure net

I am searching the archives and SunSolve now, but hope that this is

something

stupidly obvious that I can get help with right away.

I have a brand new Ultra 80 dual processor system.

I decided to install Solaris 8 out of the box, and booted up the

Installation

CD.

I get to the network configuration and tell it my IP address, host name,

etc,

and that I intend to use DNS, and give it the servers. I notice it doesn't

ask

for a router address - perhaps that is done thru discovery. I check

everything

in the confirmation dialog box and it looks right.

I click Confirm and it says "there was an error, please check your entires".

Actually the FIRST time I got the message, it said it could not find the

Domain

Name Server. But I tried changing things (remember, all is correct as

specified

on my other Suns, not running versin 8). It will not get past the Confirm

button.

I tried looking at things from the Xterm or Console, but I didn't see what I

could change to make things work.

I will reboot again and start from scratch to see what happens. I saw no

warnings in release notes about special worries about the Ultra 80.

I should mention that my Ethernet connection is 100MHz, full duplex and my

switch indicates that the connection is at that speed.

Any advice?

Ed Bolson University of Washington Cardiac Imaging Lab

(206)543-4535

bolson@u.washington.edu http://staff.washington.edu/bolson

Box 356422, Room RR 616 Health Science Building, Seattle, WA, 98195-6422

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