Installation guide

Workaround 2: If you use the Solaris installation GUI program, follow these steps.
1. Begin the installation.
2. At the prompt to select an installation type, select Custom Install.
The custom installation panels prompt you for information about the locales, software, and
disks that you want to install.
3. Answer the questions on the screens as appropriate for your system.
4. On the Fdisk Selection screen, check the disk that contains the x86boot partition.
5. Remove the x86boot partition by changing it to UNUSED in the pull-down menu.
6. Add the x86boot partition back by changing UNUSED back to x86boot.
7. Continue the installation.
Installation Bugs
The following bugs might occur during or after the installation of Solaris 10 OS.
x86: GUI Installation Fails on Systems With Lesser Than
768 MB Memory
For GUI-based installation of the Solaris 10 10/09 OS, the system should have a minimum 768
MB of memory. If the physical memory is less than 786 MB, an error message similar to the
following is displayed and the installation switches to text installation.
Not enough memory for graphical installation. Graphical installation
requires 768 MB of memory. Found 640 MB of memory.
Reverting to text-based installation.
Workaround: Ensure that you have 768 MB of memory for a GUI-based installation or
upgrade.
SPARC: DSR Upgrade Might Cause System Failure
(6883262)
Disk space reallocation (DSR) Upgrade using DVD or /net image might cause corruption of
systems. Upgrade appears successful on the system console, but no packages are added after
patch and package removal. After removal of patches or packages, the upgrade goes directly to
creating boot blocks and reboots the system. As all packages, including ones that are necessary
for booting, are removed and no packages are added, the system fails to boot. This failure is seen
intermittently.
Installation Bugs
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