I recently tried (several times) to install Solaris 10 on an x86_64 AMD machine with a SATA hard drive, but I kept running into problems. When using the boot DVD, it booted a temporary desktop, and asked me several questions. At the end it asked if I wanted to install from a CD/DVD or somewhere else. I clicked CD/DVD and clicked continue, and it said "Unable to read from disk, please ensure your disk drives are powered up" or something similar. From there, I am unable to eject the CDROM, and if I click Cancel it brings up the terminal - but I can't figure out how to reinitiate the installation from there.

Any ideas why it keeps doing this? I really want to use Solaris but I can't even get it installed!
Thanks.

Order the Sun pressed disk. I suspect that you could try to re-burn your dvd with the slowest settings on your burner. For some reason Solaris is very picky with how it gets burned to a disk.

There was some suggestion that the iso images were bad but when I went to the slowest speed burning it fixed my issue. So I discount the image issue. Use md5 to test your download.

Until it arrives consider using the virtual machines made already for either opensolaris or solaris at vmwares vtvm site.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

Thanks for the response. I should really have specified that the DVDs I am using are the ones you can order from Sun, so I doubt that's the problem. It is still possible that the DVDs were corrupt, but I doubt it. I can't really check the MD5s because I don't have the images (and I'm not sure if rebuilding the images would give me the same sum). Do you think it is worth copying the DVDs onto new DVDs, at a slow speed? Or do you think it's probably something else causing the issue?

Thanks.

Don't copy, if they are pressed then I would assume them to be 90% good.

Guess you could try and download the CD #1 and burn it and try it. It should get past where you are at. Since it is a different media type it may allow drive to work.

Also maybe check bios settings, set to default or failsafe. Be sure you have the best quality ide cables to the drive. Might be the mode the drive is set in bios. Might be that the drive has an oddity and not supported or you have to burn firmware to the drive. (I doubt anyone makes an update for solaris).

Try another DVD drive. Lastly would be get new disk.

Pretty sure there is a way to run a basic solaris from the dvd. It could be used to help diag it but more of an advanced task.

I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.