SUSE 7.3 on Ultra 1 fails during partitioning

I have inherited a Ultra1 with no Solaris version available.
I was trying to install 7.3 and the yast2 installer returns message that partitioning on my hard drives failed. I have tried both default and custom partitioning boot fail at same point.
 
Using rescue I can see both disk and supposedly create new SUN labels on them. Yes I did "w" after creating new labels :-)
But when rescue restarted the message claims that the labels are corrupted.
 
This system had Solaris 8 on it before this tragedy occurred :-(
 
 
Bryan Kelley
Motorola SPS IT
Technology Management
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