Hello,

Sun newbie here.

I have a SparcStation 20 with an HDD that's too small to install Solaris
9 to. I just got an IBM 9.1 GB drive that is detected, but I can't
install Solaris to it. I've read on Usenet that the problem that I'm
having can be resolved by labelling the disk.

I boot into single-user mode, then run format. I choose the drive (#0),
then it asks for a type. I choose Autodetect (#0) and it asks to format
the drive to 512-byte blocks. This takes a while, but it works. Then,
I try to label:


partition> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y

Warning: error writing VTOC.
Label failed.
partition>


I don't know what to do at this point. Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in advance!


FYI, partition print:

Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 119 128.32MB (120/0/0) 262800
1 swap wu 120 - 239 128.32MB (120/0/0) 262800
2 backup wu 0 - 8149 8.51GB (8150/0/0) 17848500
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 usr wm 240 - 8149 8.26GB (7910/0/0) 17322900
7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0


current:

Current Disk = c0t3d0
<IBM-DGHS09YCLAR09-1A1A cyl 8150 alt 2 hd 10 sec 219>
/iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@3,0


inquiry:

Vendor: IBM
Product: DGHS09Y CLAR09
Revision: 1A1A



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