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Hi. I just tried the new SparcSolaris installer instead of the tar.gz file I usually DL. I don't install the SUNWj* java packages that come with solaris because they are almost always out of date by the time Solaris is released and I'm always going to install the latest JDK on some NFS mounted directory for all my workstations to use anyway. Because of this I don't have a /usr/java directory, but the new installer started off like: (/usr/local/Java/pkgs/tmp) [kjm@einstein] 7>../../Zips/NetBeansIDE-QBE200204250100-200204260820-solarisSparc.bin InstallShield Wizard Initializing InstallShield Wizard... Searching for Java(tm) Virtual Machine... ................................... .................................... .................................. ................................... ................................... ................................... ................................... ..................^C And it seemed more than happy to just continue there, as if it was waiting for my machine to grow a /usr/java out of thin air. I would think it would look through my PATH to find java, or at least complain when /usr/java wasn't present, and give me a command line option to specify which java I want it to use. Once I made a softlink from where I keep java (/usr/local/Java) to /usr/java, and restarted it, it seemed happy, and it brought up the installer GUI with very little searching: (/usr/local/Java/pkgs/tmp) [kjm@einstein] 36>../../Zips/NetBeansIDE-QBE200204250100-200204260820-solarisSparc.bin InstallShield Wizard Initializing InstallShield Wizard... Searching for Java(tm) Virtual Machine... ...............<GUI appeared here> Once I got the GUI, I only saw a next button. I was expecting to see a place to specify where to install NetBeans to on the next page, but all I got was an error screen telling me that my / partition didn't have enough room: However, the following warnings were generated: * WARNING: / partition has insufficient space to install the items selected. 54.8MB additional space would be needed to install the selected items. My machine has a separate /, /usr, /var, /export, so / would be the last place I'd install it to, I don't know why that is the only thing it checks for space on (I've seen this in other Sparc isntallShield installers also) not to mention that I was planning on installing it to an NFS partition that isn't local to my machine. It hasn't even asked where I want it to be installed yet either, and because of the error, I can't continue. I don't know how much control you have over this but these things need to be fixed. -Kyle
I'm afraid I can't fix this. It is problem of IS when you see it on other IS installers as well.
The installer still doesn't work on Solaris. This time I'm no Solaris 9 and I do have all the java packages installed. This is the error message I get: ./NetBeansIDE-release34-solarisSparc.bin InstallShield Wizard Initializing InstallShield Wizard... Searching for Java(tm) Virtual Machine... ...............Error writing file = There may not be enough temporary disk space. Try using -is:tempdir to use a temporary directory on a partition with more disk space. ./NetBeansIDE-release34-solarisSparc.bin -is:/tmp InstallShield Wizard Initializing InstallShield Wizard... Searching for Java(tm) Virtual Machine... ...............Error writing file = There may not be enough temporary disk space. Try using -is:tempdir to use a temporary directory on a partition with more disk space. There is plenty of space available in the current dir. and in /tmp. Other Sun products use install shield and have worked around other problems. I don't understand why this can't be fixed. Does this work for anyone? Or are all the Solaris users still DL'ing the .tar.gz file??
It works for us. Your cmdline switch use is bad. There should be /NetBeansIDE-release34-solarisSparc.bin -is:tempdir /tmp . You omitted tempdir.
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.