Hi all, Each time I run the Solaris installation CD,whatever the CD version(CD1 of 2 or Sol8 installion),I'm getting these following errors,this occurs just after the hardware scan start running: "error : 64 PCI bit len unsupported" and then: "The root filesystem is not mounted and the configuration assistant has exited prematurely. Booting is unlikely to succeed.CTL-ALT-DEL may be used to reset the machine. Failover to boot interpreter - type ctrl-d to resume boot" I don't think it's a partition issue because I deleted all previous partitions by using FDISK. so thereotically my hard drive is squeaky clean(I hope...) Any Idea ?please this is doing my head in now,I've been struggling for 3 weeks,help!!!!

Most certainly you have a resource conflict. If you boot up and right on the screen where it has a box showing all the devices... hti the Pause|Break key on your keyboard to pause the boot process... Below the box... you should see a list of devices and on the right column is the IRQ they use. If you see 2 devices using the same IRQ number... those two devices need to be reseated to another PCI slot... it might drive you crazy trying to find the right slot as sometimes the stupid cards themselves try to use a preset IRQ. If you have an FIC motherboard model an11 or others of the same MB family... you can use the BIOS configuration to reassign hardware devices to different INT numbers so that the hardware conflicts will go away. Windows automatically take care and/or ignore these conflicts and continue... which sometimes when you run windows... the OS just crashed for no reason and if you look at the system core dump log... you'd find possible causes from hardware resource leak. I also suggest disabling some of the USB and auxiliary stuffs like your com ports (in peripheral devices)... definitely disable all the devices that you don't need that are built onto your MB.... new MBs now usually have 6 USB ports... kill them all... they show up in the list as serial bus.

Hi ] Remove your lan card from your machine and start the istallation from Installation CD 1 OF 2 I .E INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION. I had same problem in past and after removal of lan card I was able to install the OS and later I installed LAN card bye