User Guide

Problem What you will see
The state le URL (siaurl) is incorrect. If the state le URL (siaurl) is incorrect, the
installation appears to hang.
Check the console for the following error message
that appears after the VNC information:
Unable to fetch unattended statefile: URL
The InstallLoc in the state le URL (siaurl)is
incorrect.
The system reboots without an error message and
the console displays messages such as the following
message before rebooting:
Can’tMD5...
The Kickstart entry in state le URL (siaurl)is
incorrect.
The installation appears to hang and the console
displays the following message:
apit-magic: run: /installer/..."
A parameter in the URL le is incorrect. When connecting to VNC, you will see that the
unattended network installation stopped and is
waiting for input.
SIA Boot Starts, Then Stops
The initrd.img le used by SIA is over 100 megabytes. The Solaris TFTP daemon is unable to
support the size of the image.
If the SIA starts to boot, then stops with a blank screen and displays a time-out error message,
switch to a TFTP server with a dierent operating system.
VNC Password Does Not Get Set
If the VNC password was not set, the following message displays on the console:
mv /dev/tty /dev/tty-node
ln -s /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/tty
echo password
/usr/X11R6/bin/vncpasswd.real /installer/vncpasswd
echo password
They don’t match. Try again.
This issue is a timing problem. To resolve this problem, reboot the system and restart the
installation.
Debugging Unattended Installation Problems
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