I will try my best to describe my problem. Hopefully I am posting to
the right forums also.

I successfully installed Sun One App Server 7 Standard Edition on
Solaris 8. It was installed on a mounted secondary hard disk. That hard
disk has since gone bad. I bought a new hard disk and have that
mounted.

I want to install Sun One App Server 7 again. I am installing through
the GUI, but do not the options to install the server even though it is
completely gone. I guess the installer seems to think that the product
is already installed, even though the previous hard disk with all of
the application server files are gone. Is there any way to uninstall or
remove the installed status of the application server so I can
reinstall?

Thanks.

chungste@gmail.com wrote:
> I will try my best to describe my problem. Hopefully I am posting to
> the right forums also.
>
> I successfully installed Sun One App Server 7 Standard Edition on
> Solaris 8. It was installed on a mounted secondary hard disk. That hard
> disk has since gone bad. I bought a new hard disk and have that
> mounted.
>
> I want to install Sun One App Server 7 again. I am installing through
> the GUI, but do not the options to install the server even though it is
> completely gone. I guess the installer seems to think that the product
> is already installed, even though the previous hard disk with all of
> the application server files are gone. Is there any way to uninstall or
> remove the installed status of the application server so I can
> reinstall?
>

It is perhaps installed as a package, and the package information in
/var/sadm is still there.
If you do not know the package name, try

pkginfo | egrep -i "sun|one|app server"
and remove the unwanted package with

pkgrm package


--
Michael Tosch @ hp : com

chungste@gmail.com wrote:
> I will try my best to describe my problem. Hopefully I am posting to
> the right forums also.
>
> I successfully installed Sun One App Server 7 Standard Edition on
> Solaris 8. It was installed on a mounted secondary hard disk. That hard
> disk has since gone bad. I bought a new hard disk and have that
> mounted.
>
> I want to install Sun One App Server 7 again. I am installing through
> the GUI, but do not the options to install the server even though it is
> completely gone. I guess the installer seems to think that the product
> is already installed, even though the previous hard disk with all of
> the application server files are gone. Is there any way to uninstall or
> remove the installed status of the application server so I can
> reinstall?
>
> Thanks.
>

Try deleting the productregistry file under /var/sadm.

SUN may use /etc/opt /var/opt and /opt folders, along with the PKG
registry to determine if a package is installed or not.

So, please clean up SUN One AppServer stuff from above folders and
registry and retry. That should work.

-Dexthor.