I have OpenSolaris 2008.11 installed (it's not a live CD, it's on a hard drive). I ran packagemanager and set the repo to http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev and it downloaded a lot of packages and said it needed to create a new BE. After doing that, it errored out with the (poorly worded and misspelled) error message:
"This is an Live Image. The install operation can't be performed." So, what does the error really mean and how does one get around it? It is definitely *NOT* a live image. I installed with a live image, but i'm not booting to the CD--it's not even in the DVD drive now. I was also able to install packages that didn't come with the live CD (such as SUNWexpect). This is on my laptop. On my desktop I was able to upgrade my system. Here's some output that might help: $ beadm list BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created -- ------ ---------- ----- ------ ------- opensolaris - - 10.18M static 2008-12-04 14:43 opensolaris-1 NR / 8.19G static 2008-12-05 10:00 opensolaris-bfu - - 1012.89M static 2008-12-04 17:19 $ cat /etc/release OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86 Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 19 November 2008 $ uname -a SunOS three-sisters 5.11 snv_101b i86pc i386 i86pc three-sisters:/ # cat /etc/release OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86 Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 19 November 2008 three-sisters:/ # pkg version 666742d60b75 three-sisters:/ # pkg authority AUTHORITY URL opensolaris.org http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/ dev (preferred) http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ three-sisters:/ # beadm list BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created -- ------ ---------- ----- ------ ------- opensolaris - - 10.18M static 2008-12-04 14:43 opensolaris-1 NR / 8.19G static 2008-12-05 10:00 opensolaris-bfu - - 1012.89M static 2008-12-04 17:19 I tried a upgrade about 3 or 4 times with packagemanager, the last after rebooting and I still get the same error. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
