Glenn Lagasse wrote: > 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? > >
All basic UFS, no ZFS. No zones. >> 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. > > For the GUI fine, I can still upgrade, but not if it's broken with mis-calculations.
