DoN. Nichols wrote:
> According to Michael Tosch <eedmit@NO.eed.SPAM.ericsson.PLS.se>:

>> Immediate installation might fail due to "missing disk label".
>> Then run the "format" program, select the disk, and label it.
>
> This is because all EIDE drives from the average computer store
> are pre-formatted for Windows, and Solaris uses a very different format.

What kind of nonsense is this, a hard drive you buy in average joe's computer
shop is unformated and lacks partition table information, even on a microsoft
machine you need to run fdisk before you can formate the hard drive and first
then you can use it.


//Aho