Cool! Thanks for trying this out. Just a bit more clarifications on Nexenta upgrades:
1) We are using BFU-like way to upgrade our bits but difference is that it is all done via APT repository with respect to the set of pre-installed packages; 2) We are using Debconf front-ends for user interaction; 4 backends supported and tested: readline, ncurses, GNOME and KDE; 3) We are supporting "major" and "minor"(selected) upgrades; build40 => build42 was an example of "major" upgrade; if Nexenta/Solaris developers fixes particular bug in particular package like sunwiscsiu than "minor" 5.11.40-1 => 5.11.40-2 upgrade will be possible; 4) We are supporting downgrade path but per-package basis; This option is not very useful by itself but it is good to have it. Thanks! Erast On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 22:37 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: > Nice job to the Nexenta team... > > only a couple of comments: > - After finishing the download of packages, it prompted me to switch > into single user. I said "Yes", but it continued with the upgrade in > multi-user anyway. > - Upon booting, I see the new 20060615 (b42) kernel (yay!), but the asy > driver failed to identify the UART chip for what looks like my COM1 > serial port. minor annoyance, nothing major - just noise on the console > during boot. And this could just be an upstream bug from those pesky > Sun engineers ;-) > > other than that... all looks good. it booted straight into X - I still > had all my i955resolution hacky goodness for my widescreen, along with > my speedstep/powernow driver and updated iwi driver. > > congrats on the seamless upgrade procedure... > > cheers, > steve > > Erast Benson wrote: > > NexentaOS build42 available in "elatte-unstable" APT repository now. > > This is first time we are trying to utilize Nexenta Live Upgrades for ON > > core packages. > > > > I took some screenshots of the process here: > > http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/ErastBenson/Core_Upgrades > > > > Erast > > > > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 14:31 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: > >> ON Build 42 source/bfu is up: > >> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b42 > >> > >> cheers, > >> steve > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
