SOLVED While I *still* think that one needs to collect items from here or there, I have finally managed to liveupdate *another* machine, also from nv81 to (now) nv93 without any hitch. Everything went through exactly as described in here and elsewhere. On this, the successful, machine there is also not that confusion with the disk controllers, the disk (first SATA) is and remains c1d0, out and over. The answer/explanation on why it failed and fails so miserably on that other machine is still pending, though.
Thanks for everyone's input, Uwe P.S.: I found the two resources most helpful: http://developers.sun.com/sxde/upgrade_guide.jsp http://blogs.sun.com/4ctom/entry/live_upgrade_on_my_laptop#comments This message posted from opensolaris.org
