"grantpt: No such file or directory" during jumpstart attempt

"grantpt: No such file or directory" during jumpstart attempt

Post by Dan Strombe » Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:00:00



I'm trying to jumpstart Solaris 8.

When I try to, with "boot net - install", I get:

     grantpt: No such file or directory
     XView error: NULL pointer passed to xv_set

"boot net - install w" works fine.

We used to get a similar (perhaps identical) error back when we tried
to jumpstart Solaris 2.6.  I was told the error was because I was
using GNU cpio and not sun cpio, and as I recall switching to sun cpio
fixed the problem.

However with Solaris 8, I am definitely using sun cpio to copy from
CDROM to disk, and I'm getting this error again.

Has anyone else had this problem?  Anyone know a fix?