Whats with partition 8? Thinking it must be 7.

Please delete the partition and install the OS.
You can create the partition 7 if the OS is installed
or within the installation process

heinz


"Arrigo" <arrigo@interac.it> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>I tried to resize backup partition so that it is:
> partition> p
> Current partition table (unnamed):
> Total disk sectors available: 17672849 + 16384 (reserved sectors)
>
> Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector
> 0 unassigned wm 0 0 0
> 1 unassigned wm 0 0 0
> 2 backup wm 34 8.43GB 17672848
> 3 unassigned wm 0 0 0
> 4 unassigned wm 0 0 0
> 5 unassigned wm 0 0 0
> 6 unassigned wm 0 0 0
> 8 reserved wm 17672849 8.00MB 17689232
>
> partition> label
> Ready to label disk, continue? yes
> partition>
>
> In this way, I can label the disk without error, but the installation
> gives the same error. At the moment I'm re-formatting the disk.
>
> Arrigo
>
>
> Arrigo ha scritto:
>> Hi everybody. I'm experiencing some problems in Solaris 10 CD
>> installation.
>>
>> I encounter a problem in disk selection, because I receive this error,
>> selecting the disk on which I want to install the OS:
>>
>>
>> This disk (c0t0d0) cannot be used to install Solaris software.
>>
>> This disk drive does not have a valid label. If you want to use
>> this disk for the install, exit the Solaris Interactive
>> Installation program, use the format(1M) command from the
>> command line to label the disk, and type 'install-solaris' to
>> restart the installation program.
>>
>> I exited the install program and tried to label the disk. The disk's
>> partition is:
>>
>> partition> print
>> Current partition table (unnamed):
>> Total disk sectors available: 17672849 + 16384 (reserved sectors)
>>
>> Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector
>> 0 unassigned wm 0 0 0
>> 1 unassigned wm 0 0 0
>> 2 backup wm 34 8.43GB 17679025
>> 3 unassigned wm 0 0 0
>> 4 unassigned wm 0 0 0
>> 5 unassigned wm 0 0 0
>> 6 unassigned wm 0 0 0
>> 8 reserved wm 17672849 8.00MB 17689232
>>
>> and when I try to label the disk the error is:
>>
>> partition> label
>> Ready to label disk, continue? yes
>>
>> label error: EFI Labels do not support overlapping partitions
>> Partition 8 overlaps partition 2.
>> Warning: error writing EFI.
>> Label failed.
>>
>>
>> My hardware is:
>> Sun Enterprise 450 (2 X UltraSPARC-II 400MHz), No Keyboard
>> OpenBoot 3.14, 1536 MB memory installed
>>
>> Can you explain me where is the error?
>>
>> Thank in advance.
>>
>> Arrigo.