Casper.Dik at Sun.COM writes: > (With Windows, Ubuntu and one Solaris partition, typical people can't spare > another 15GB for an alternate boot environment on their systems)
What are you talking about? My ABEs are rarely more than 5GB -- and that's being generous, as I expect the OS to grow quite a bit over time. You don't need to copy all of your data as well. Just the OS. > And, as far as I can tell, in-place upgrade is nothing more than: > > - boot from network/DVD media > - establish existing root as "alternate liveupgrade root" > - perform liveupgrade The "perform liveupgrade" step is pfinstall. Yes, and that's basically what it does. Minus, of course, the miniroot construction, testing, and the support to make sure that it works from release to release. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
