I have a system with Solaris Express DE 02/07 and I want to upgrade it to 
Solaris Express CE b65.

I have c1d0 and c2d0 mirrored boot disks with svm and have c1d1 and c2d1 
mounted as a zfs file system in a mirrored config. all drives are on the same 
intel sata controler (in legacy mode, hardware raid disabled).

Now when I am booting from the build 65 DVD and get into the install screen and 
select custom install I get to a screen where solaris is telling be that c2d1 
is the boot disk (and it's not in my current config unless the installer 
renumbers them). I assume it's renumbered and when I try to go to the next 
screen it says that the disk is not formatted and it will run fdisk on it, now 
at this point I cancel the instalation since I don't want to risk loozing my 
data.
My 2 boot svm managed drives have 1 solaris2 fdisk partition each. the zfs ones 
have 1 EFI fdisk partition each.
THe ZFS drives have been added at a later time, they were not present at 
initial install.

Now the possible problems can be:

Installer does not detect the actual boot disk?
Installer does not recognize a partitioned disk?
Installer names devices differently than host OS?

I have a question:
where in the install process should I get the upgrade option?
how does the upgrade deal with my SVM mirrored root ?

I have the following system:

Motherboard: Intel BOXD975XBX2KR
Video: PNY Quadro FX 560
Optical: Sony Q170A-B2 18X Double Layer DVD±RW Drive
Procesor: Intel® Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe Processor 2.4GHz, 1066FSB, LGA775, 4MB 
Cache
Memory: Kingston KVR800D2E5K2 4GB Kit DDR2-800 PC2-6400 ECC Memory
Hard Drives: 2X Western Digital Caviar(boot)  320GB Serial ATA II 7200RPM Hard 
Drive w/16MB + 2X Hitachi Deskstar 500GB Serial ATA II 7200RPM Hard Drive 

thanks for any help!
 
 
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