Technical data

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.
Some Asian Locales Cannot Be Used for Custom
JumpStart (6681454)
Some Asian locales like, th_TH.ISO8859-11, th_TH.TIS620, ko_KR.EUC, ko_KR.UTF-8,
zh_TW.EUC, zh_CN.EUC, zh_CN.GBK, and zh_CN.UTF-8 cannot be used while installing
with Custom JumpStart. While setting locales in the sysidcfg le using the system_locale
keyword, the following error message is displayed:
xx_xx.xxxxx is not a valid system locale
The JumpStart installation is stopped and Interactive installation starts.
Workaround: Use shorter locale names such as th_TH, ko, ko.UTF-8, zh_TW, zh, zh.GBK, and
zh.UTF-8, instead of longer locale names,
SPARC: Solaris 8 Migration Assistant Patch
Requirements (6673751)
Upgrading to the Solaris 10 5/08 release when running the co-packaged Solaris 8 Migration
Assistant software fails. No error message is displayed. The system panics when a Solaris 8
branded zone is booted.
Workaround: Install the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant patch #128548-02 or later. This patch is
recommended for all kernels. The patch #128548-02 or later should also be installed before
Installation Bugs
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