First of all I don't use Solaris or Sparcs very often so bear with me please. I am trying to install Solaris 9 on an Ultra 10 with an existing version of Solaris 8 installed. I will be attempting to do a full install of Solaris 9 instead of an upgrade from 8. If I do an init 0 from the existing OS and then do a boot cdrom it begins booting. it takes awhile before I get the first message: WARNING: timeout: reset target chno = 1 targ = 2 It continues to chug along and eventually produces the following error messages: failed to install "power" driver vn_rdwr failed with error 0x5 c2audit error reading sections I haven't let it get any further than that. Trying it a different way - I just do a stop-A when it begins to boot and type boot cdrom. It looks like it begins to initialize but then flashes an error so fast that I can only pick up a few words and reboots. The message says something about "panic" and "mount." I would really appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.

Do you have any soft partitions on your existing disk? If so what is the size of the soft partition's raw device?

I don't know if this is really what you are asking for but my partitions are: 0 /proc 480815 / 495462 /usr 0 /dev/fd 240399 /var 7333149 /opt 302688 /tmp The numbers are the total size in K. I have not partitioned the disk any further. I put in a Solaris 7 CD I had and it started into the install fine - so I think that rules out a hardware issue.