Dan Anderson wrote: > 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:
Hi, please look at the following bugs for possible, related information: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3452 http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6043 Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
