2008/12/20 Charles Hedrick <hedrick at rutgers.edu>: > I have a Solaris system running SXDE preview from early 2008. I had hoped to > update it to 2008.11. However it looks like the 2008.11 installer wants to > create a whole new Solaris partition. I have an existing Solaris partition > with three slices: root, export, and spare-root. I can't lose the contents of > export. I need to install Solaris into spare-root. That doesn't seem > possible. Is there no way to upgrade my system?
SXDE (Solaris Express, Developer Edition) is Solaris, 2008.11 is OpenSolaris. They are two different Operating Systems and you cannot update one to the other. Suggest you either update to the current SXDE (nv104) or copy out /export to an archive device and do a clean install of OpenSolaris (assume you want to reuse the space /export is using). -- Tony Reeves Christchurch New Zealand
