Just for the record, option #4 invokes the Text Installer in a console- based session. It does not use pfinstall.
Sue >> Casper: >> >> Teo is using the option #4 to do the upgrade. It will be using >> pfinstall and it will calculate the size from the packages. It also >> include a fudge factor also. I do not know what the fudge factor is. I >> only know that if you do the same upgrade with GUI, it will be much bigger. >> >> As Matt Williamson had pointed out, there is already an existing bug to >> track the issue with upgrade overestimates what it needs. >> >> 4024423 - upgrade install, auto-layout disk re-partitioning needs better >> calculation >> >> >> Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: >> >>Matt and Casper: >> >> >> >> I also did a quick research and see what was changed between build 39 >> >>and build 42a. The JDS 4 did come in in build 40 and 41. This would >> >>probably explain why we need more space. >> > >> > >> > >> > It still overestimates what we need by a fair amount. >> > >> > (> 1 GB, in fact) >> > >> > Casper >> > _______________________________________________ >> > install-discuss mailing list >> > install-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Mary Ding >> _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ Member of Technical Staff >> _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ UMPK17-307 >> _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Menlo Park, CA. 94043 >> _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ mary.ding at Eng.Sun.COM >> 650-786-8317 (phone) >> M I C R O S Y S T E M S >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> install-discuss mailing list >> install-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
