Installation guide
x86: Install Hangs on Systems With 512 Mbyte of
Memory (6423854)
Installations can run out of memory and hang on 512-Mbyte systems under the following
conditions:
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You install using a network installation image of the OS.
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The Solaris installation program is in a windowing environment:
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The graphical user interface (GUI).
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The -text option or “3. Solaris Interactive Text (Desktop session)” in the menu below.
When the system exhausts available memory, the GUI installation process slows and eventually
fails. The text does not display in a windowing environment.
Workaround:
To avoid this problem, select a non-windowing environment during the initial installation
startup. During startup from the installation media the following menu is displayed:
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1. Solaris Interactive (default)
2. Custom JumpStart
3. Solaris Interactive Text (Desktop session)
4. Solaris Interactive Text (Console session)
5. Apply driver updates
6. Single user shell
Enter the number of your choice.
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At this point, choose “4. Solaris Interactive Text (Console session)”. This non-windowing
environment will initiate a text-only installation, without using memory-intense processes.
x86: Invalid /sbin/dhcpinfo Error During Installation
(6332044)
If you install the Solaris 10 10/09 OS on an x86 based system, the following error message is
displayed.
/sbin/dhcpinfo: primary interface requested but no primary interface is set
The error does not aect the installation, and the installation succeeds.
Workaround: Ignore the error message.
Installation Bugs
Solaris 10 10/09 Release Notes • October 200942