Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Online Release Notes
		Chapter 1. Installation Issues

Installation Bugs That Occur During an Interactive Installation

Installation Progress Bar May Be Inaccurate (1266156)

The Installing Solaris Software - Progress bar sometimes indicates that an installation is complete when it is still in progress. The install program may add packages for several minutes after the progress bar has indicated that the installation is complete.

Do not rely on the progress bar to indicate that the installation is complete. The installation displays the following message when the program has completed all installation operations:

Installation complete

Warnings May Occur When Creating a File System (4189127)

One of the following warning messages may be displayed when creating a file system during installation:

Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (87) >= data blocks (63) in last cylinder group. This implies 1008 sector(s) cannot be allocated.

or

Warning: 1 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated

The warning occurs when the size of the file system being created does not map exactly to the space on the disk being used. This can result in unused space on the disk that is not incorporated into the indicated file system. This unused space is not available for use by other file systems.

Workaround: Ignore the warning message.

No Error Occurs If # Is Included In A Path (4294586)

If a # is included in the path of a Java program, the following message is displayed when you execute a program:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundErrorVolume Management (vold) sometimes uses a pound sign in a pathwhen creating directory names:

Workaround: Delete the # or do not use any Java installation wizards.

Localization Bugs		Upgrade Issues