Michelle Knight wrote: > Hi Folks, > > My main home server was Ubuntu, but I've transferred my data to ZFS and > waited for 2010-2 to come out; I thought that I could do without it for a > couple of weeks. > > Now, 2010-2 seems to have slipped. This is going to be an added four weeks > without my data ... it is pointless trying to use 2009-6, as some of my > requests for help have been denied here on the basis that I'm using such an > old version... > > ... on the other hand, trying to update sees me land on 130 which seems to be > regarded as a toxic build. There is also seemingly no way to throttle the > updates to have some control over the builds I upgrade to; it is all or > nothing. > > Also, jumping from 111b to 130 seems to land up with odd permissions issues > that are complained about on reboot; I get the feeling that updating in such > a large jump is not a very good idea. I've attempted about five upgrades and > had to roll back to 111b every time. That is yet another reason for not > installing 2009-6 now and running an upgrade later on. > > My present view point is that I'm stuck until 2010-3 comes out ... unless > anyone else has another strategy that will not see me go through > installing/configuring the server twice?
Hiya Michelle, I has problems upgrading all the way from 2009.06 too. Because my data is a separate zpool to my rpool, I just reinstalled the OS from one of the preview builds from genunix.org After about build 126, things are pretty smooth and I just upgraded with pkg since that. If you can, I suggest you download the latest preview build from here http://genunix.org/ That will get you up to build 132 right from the installer. There are no new features to be added now until the next release, just bug fixes. So you should be OK to go from here up to the release when it happens. Hope that helps. Cheers, Dunc P.S. those ISO's on genunix.org are DVD ISOs and not CDs now, don't burn loads of CD coasters like I did, use a DVD :-)
