After installation I get the /etc/bootrc 'not found' or 'failed to open'. Or something to that effect. After that it dumps me to a prompt where I 'promptly' do an 'ls' to figure out where I am. (I'm no expert on Solaris (Yet!) but it appears that I'm on the 'swap' slice when I do an 'ls')Up to that point the installation went well without a hitch. I select 'D,A' as the boot sequence in BIOS, and Solaris finds itself without any problem but not the /etc/bootrc file. I've got 4.1GB drive I'm installing Solaris on (It's c0d1 on my system) I define my slices as follows during install: 0 / 400 1 swap 512 3 /usr 1525 4 /var 400 5 /etc 400 6 /export 400 7 /opt 461 I would like to hear from someone who has successfully installed Solaris on their second drive.

Hi, Here is my response to Bob who emailed me about this (Thought slightly modified). I nearly forgot about this forum seeing that no one responded until now. It's been over half a year too LOL. "Hi Bob, First try to change the boot order from 'C' to 'D' in BIOS before attempting the rest in this email. I can tell you what I did. It's been a while since I visited that partition but here's my 2c. What I did is to install Solaris like Linux: by the book and using mostly default options (slightly modified). I have 2 drives each at 4GB. I have Windowz NT on the first one and Solaris on the second. When installing from first CD, select to boot from 'C' in BIOS. C being the first disk. Once the first CD installs and the software asks you to reboot, do so, but make sure to change the boot order in BIOS from 'C' to 'D'. Then 'save' and 'exit' and let the boot process take over. You should be booting now from your 'D' (if that is where you wanted to install your Solaris) Simply don't add your own partitions as recommended instead assign 3GB or more for your '/' and the rest for '/export'. In fact you might want to assign 75% or more of your space to '/' and the rest to '/export'. This resolved my conflict. But I need to constantly change the boot order in BIOS to select what system I want booted. This is the safer approach since the Solaris installation doesn't like being on the second drive much and ,it seams, isn't tested well on second drives either. Regards, Tom K."