On 26 Jan 2009, at 15:58, Shawn Walker wrote: > 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
And while you're at it, please file a bug about the "poorly worded and misspelled" error message, marking it with the "ue" (user experience) keyword. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
