Hi Frank, There is no plan to make liveCD for SPARC. We are planning on few things that will help with this:
1. Recovery disk. This will be for both SPARC and x86. 2. Automated install is being modified to allow a client to boot from the network without initiating an install. This may be heavyweight for a single system recovery, but would work. 3. Text installer. This introduce a media based bootable SPARC image, and allow you to boot and not do an install since it is interactive. There is no bootable image for SPARC at this time. The text installer and the bootable AI image are both in the works now. thanks, sarah ***** Frank Middleton wrote: > Often the remedy for a problem is to boot from a CD, fix the issue and then > boot from disk again. Alternatively, boot from an alternate boot environment > and continue from there. > > ZFS versions break the latter option. If you've updated to the latest ZFS you > may not be able to boot an older version. Worse, there appears to be no > bootable CD for SPARC any more. > > Even without updating the ZFS version, bugs in the older version may corrupt > the newer version. For example, snv122 will no longer boot if you boot to > snv103 from a different disk and then reboot to the disk with snv122 on it > (it goes into a reboot loop). The only solution currently seems to be to > always keep a copy of a bootable version of the current OS on a spare disk, > something that may not always work and is prone to error. > > Is there any plan to make a live CD for SPARC, or does someone have a > suggestion for a way to solve this problem some other way (i.e., other than > making a bootable disk and keeping it on a shelf somewhere)? > > Thanks
