"Neal A. Lucier" <nlucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:

>The documentation has nothing to do with the base Solaris install. It
>is true that the installer is mistaken in asking you to insert the
>CD-ROM if you got the boxed set of Sol 10 media (cause it only comes on
>DVD).

>If you are that point of the install just pick skip, you will have a
>fully functionally sol 10 install, you just won't have /opt/sun_docs.

>If you do a 2nd install, no need to deselect individual packages, the
>Docs are an entirely seperate entity from the OS, just on the screen
>that asks you if you want JES, Sun Docs, Companion CD and about 2 other
>things, just uncheck the Sun Docs.

>This is all from memory so sorry if it is too vague to help, but I just
>had the same issue on a Ultra 10, and everything worked out fine.

Thanks Neal. I discovered the 'skip' option after posting the message. 8-)

The JES software is only in DVD format too, and it would also not read, so
the system I did the install on doesn't have any of the Sun docs, or the JES
stuff. That might explain why when logging into the newly-installed system,
selecting CDE caused something to crash and make the machine reboot, but
picking the Java desktop option (which seems to be a desktop manager based
on GNOME) worked ok.

Craig.
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