I am very new to Sun solaris 9.0. I read the document for solaris9.0 I found there are two main installation instruction for installing Solaris9.0 One is Solaris Web start which uses Solaris SPARC Platform Edition DVD or Solaris SPARC Platform Edition Installation CD. Another one is Solaris suninstall program. I am confused by the differences between these two installation methods. And I installed Solaris9.0 by using suninstall program. But I did not sucessfully install Solaris9.0 by Solaris Web start program. The install process seems to hang during format my pc's harddisk. I refered to the document for Solaris installation insruction which is as follows: #ok boot cdrom [[- nowin]] nowin 指定以 CLI 模式运行 Solaris Web Start 程序 I do not understand the meaning of nowin, I tried to type CLI replacing [[nowin]], but failed. How to install Solaris9.0? And Some ideas for partition hardisk if I want to construct a NIS server in my Sun Blade. Some useful links can you tell me? I am very new to computer network, I hope I can improve the ability here and obtain helps!

Hi, I dont have experience installing solaris on PC but on sparc machines, but I've been told that the process have little differences. NIS server does not need too much disk, so normal installation should work. try to use this guide to install solaris http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0491?q=solaris+9+x86+installation or try to look other books/guides at docs.sun.com good luck