* Marcus Comstedt (marcus at mc.pp.se) wrote: > Hi. > > I have a system which was original SXDE b79a. Because I developed > a need for crossbow functionality, I BFUed the system (twice, as there > as a bug in the first set of bits) to get crossbow, as BFU was the only way > to get crossbow at that time. > > Now that there is an SXCE release with crossbow out, I figured I'd make an > upgrade to this release to get away from having things which were merely > BFUed. However, LiveUpgrade fails with > > Stat failed: /a///var/sadm/softinfo/INST_RELEASE > > Googling a bit, I seem to find that BFU purpously deletes this file to make > the system not upgradable!? Well, that sucks. What am I supposed to do now? > Can the system be "un-BFUed" so that I can upgrade to b105?
No, you can't 'un-BFU' the system. At least not in any stable, supported way (as far as liveupgrade is concerned). Your options are: a) reinstall, installing 105 from scratch b) bfu to 105 If you bfu to 105, you'll only be updating the ON components of the system (the kernel and some of the userland). You won't get updates to X, Desktop, etc. You *can not* mix BFU with upgrade. BFU is an ON consolidation developer tool that allows one to update a system to newer kernel/ON bits in order to facilitate testing and development of those bits. It is not now, nor has it ever been a method for upgrading a system from one release to the next. Cheers, -- Glenn
