I am running Solaris Express Community Edition x86 release 96. I want to upgrade to the latest (and yes I know the last) SXCE release, 127. ( I need the updated firefox, gnome and xvm support.)
I was trying to do this as a live upgrade from local DVD. I have two disks, - the 2nd disk was unused so I created partitions for the new root and var slices. I did the following # cd /cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_11/Tools/Installers #./liveupgrade20 ... #lucreate -c solenv1 \ -m /:/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0:ufs \ -m /var:/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s3:ufs \ -n solenv2 # luupgrade -u -n solenv2 -s /cdrom/cdrom0 System has findroot enabled GRUB No entry for BE <solenv2> in GRUB menu Uncompressing miniroot Copying failsafe kernel from media. 74657 blocks miniroot filesystem is <lofs> Mounting miniroot at </cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_11/Tools/Boot> Validating the contents of the media </cdrom/cdrom0>. The media is a standard Solaris media. The media contains an operating system upgrade image. The media contains <Solaris> version <11>. Constructing upgrade profile to use. Locating the operating system upgrade program. Checking for existence of previously scheduled Live Upgrade requests. Creating upgrade profile for BE <solenv2>. Checking for GRUB menu on ABE <solenv2>. Saving GRUB menu on ABE <solenv2>. Checking for x86 boot partition on ABE. Determining packages to install or upgrade for BE <solenv2>. Performing the operating system upgrade of the BE <solenv2>. CAUTION: Interrupting this process may leave the boot environment unstable or unbootable. Altho it never progresses beyond this- figure it has been at least 2 hours this time round. >From another terminal # lustatus Boot Environment Is Active Active Can Copy Name Complete Now On Reboot Delete Status -------------------------- -------- ------ --------- ------ ---------- solenv1 yes yes yes no - solenv2 yes no no no UPDATING # The root and var slices for the new boot environment are mounted under /a and /a/var. The disk used/free space does not change on those. I can not find any files on those slices that have time stamps newer then the start of the upgrade process. There are some files under /a/tmp that are created at the beginning of the install process. I have also tried booting from the DVD to upgrade the new solaris instance. (Previously I had update the primary instance to rev 96 from something even older.) I select the host name, naming service (LDAP) etc at the screen "checking modified files" the progress bar gets about 75% of the way and stops- I waited at least 30 min and did not see activity on the DVD drive (no LED flashing.) Any ideas? Opensolaris Live Install is not really an option since is would wipe the disk. Plus I like having a lot of the installation files on the DVD and not having to download all the updates from the internet. Thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
