Any help you guys can offer would be greatly appreciated, here's my problem. I have Windows 2000 installed and set aside an 8Gig partition to install Solaris 8. I boot from CD1 and every time it goes into the Web Start portion of the install I get the following message.
mount: operation not applicable to FS type Tmpfs
Tmpfs mount failed.
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I have a friend who was trying to do the exact same thing on his system and he ran into the same problem. His solution was to use two different drives and since one contained another OS had to write all 0s to the drive before Sun would install. Basically it seems that Sun doesn't like to install over a non-Sun OS. Dose anyone know how to work around this problem, thanks in advance.
Tim

There is no workaround as far as I'm aware, you have to buy a second drive. you cannot have Solaris on the same drive as Windows based OS's. Solaris FDISK and Windows FDISK write information in different ways.

If you buy a second drive, you can then use a boot utility, like Systemcommander from

http://www.systemcommander.com

Regards,
Robert Cope.

I have Win 2k and Solaris 8 on the same partition. No problem.

DON'T use the Solaris Webstart CD. Use Software disk1. This has all the tools to format the drive correctly.

You just need to make sure you install Solaris 8 FIRST, before win2K. Set a PRI-DOS partition in the Solaris install for the Win 2k partition to sit in.

After Solaris installs, boot the machine using a Win98 start disk and use FDISK to select the intended windows partition as active. DO NOT use FDISK to format the partition, or win 2K install will fail.

Then boot from the Win2K CD and install.

Then use win98 floppy/fdisk to change the partition back. Use the Solaris Boot manager to decide which OS you want. Don't try altering boot.ini, because without some extra fiddling - it can corrupt the Solaris partition.

I am still looking for a way to install Solaris 8 on a system which already has Win2K running. Will post if I find one.

Ah. Typing error! I meant to say I have Win 2k and Solaris 8 on the same DISK. Not partition. Apologies!

Dual boot Solaris and Windows 2000
This works. Thank You. I DID NOT KNOW YOU COULD BOOT FROM CD1 for interactive setup. I was under the impression it was web start or nothing. Thanks Again.