The Redhat 6.2 Sparc installer fails when there are too many disks. I have a Sun Ultra 2 with two D1000 storage arrays (eight 18GB drives each). There is one internal drive, for a total of seventeen drives. Pressing "next" on the installer screen that provides the "use fdisk" and packages options results in a message box saying "too many drives; try using fdisk; tell RadHat this happened." Of course, clicking "use fdisk" gets the same message. Is there a fix for this, or a workaround? There's on RH7 beta for sparc, so I cannot try that.
Pinstripe beta now has a limit of 64 drives total.
It still does not work for RedHat 6.2, and there is no RedHat 7.0 for Sparc. Therefore, the bug is not "closed."
This is not a defect in the product - it simply has a builtin limit to the number of drives it will support. We increased this number in our developmental tree. If you are installing packages to all 17 drives then I could see you have a problem. Otherwise you can simply disconnect unneeded drives during the install and then format them afterwards.