Hi Per, * Per Allansson (per at appgate.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for information as to how to upgrade an existing Solaris 10 > installation > to Indiana. Looking through the package/install projects it looks like this is > planned/begun/... , but what is the current status?
The current status is that there is no status. Upgrading from Solaris 10 to Opensolaris (the distro) while planned (and of course needed eventually) is way down on the list of priorities atm. That said, if you're feeling brave (and very very lucky) you can take this blog posting: http://blogs.sun.com/edp/entry/moving_from_nevada_and_live And try to adapt it to your needs. It talks about moving from SXCE to OpenSolaris but it somewhat applies to your situation. The caveat being that you would need to be booted off of an OpenSolaris liveCD since none of the required software is available for S10. I haven't tried that avenue (from liveCD) but I have used a script very similar to do an install from OpenSolaris onto a second disk in the same machine. I will caution you, this isn't for the faint of heart. You could very well likely end up with a machine that won't boot anything without doing a complete system reinstall. So take a really good backup before you start and be prepared to get your hands dirty. Have I sufficiently conveyed the message 'this is highly experimental and hacky' to you? :-) > What I want to do in more detail is to be able to upgrade to Indiana on a Sun > X86 > machine running Solaris 10. I have several partitions available for > the upgrade process. If I was to use SXCE I could have simply used > luupgrade - working around a number of "features" in the process... ;) > but since this is about to be removed in favor of the new > packaging/beadm/... stuff I would rather skip the LU altogether. > > A note on "upgrading" here - it would be perfectly ok to be able to > install a fresh install of Indiana on another partition - but it must > be done when running on Solaris 10, and without using a physical > CD/DVD/USB device. That complicates things tremendously. In order to do this, you would at least need to compile IPS (image packaging system) on S10. And that's just for starters. Even then, I doubt you'd be able to make the entire process work properly as a lot of the software involved just isn't meant to run on S10 and the versions in S10 are likely too old to be of use. If booting off of a CD was viable, you could probably do this from the OpenSolaris LiveCD. Otherwise, you could try upgrading to SXCE via live upgrade (though again, take a really good backup and don't be too surprised if it doesn't 'just work' since live upgrade is going away in SXCE eventually there isn't any work going on to make sure that upgrades from S10 to SXCE actually work). Cheers, -- Glenn
