Hi Paul,

* Paul Gress (pgress at optonline.net) wrote:
> I've been running SXCE now for a couple of years.  On the most part,  
> I've always been able to upgrade install.  I am currently at snv 114.   
> When I try to do an upgrade install, the install process recognizes that  
> it can upgrade and proceeds along properly.  The trouble starts after it  
> caculates the size of the packages then states (something similar, as I  
> had to copy it on paper)
>
> Disk c1t2d0s0    /      Existing 185524 (MB)      Required 195147 (MB)
>
> Now I have 30 gig of hard drive space free on the root file system.  Why  
> is it now required to have almost 200 gig of space.  I believe there  
> must be some sort of calculation error.  But a google search didn't  
> reveal anything, nor did searching on bugster.  Can anybody shed any 
> light?

At a guess, do you have zones configured on this machine on the root
file system?  ZFS snapshots?

> Also, since around snv105 the installs broke to use a graphical gui.   
> When is this bug going to be worked out?

When the Caiman project integrates into the ON consolidation later this
year.  The installer(s) in SXCE are legacy and aren't being fixed or
updated since they're being replaced by the work going on in the Caiman
project.

Cheers,

-- 
Glenn

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