Ian Collins writes: > Miroslav Nachev wrote: > > After that I do new installation but then my existing data is lost. Is > > there any option to prevent disk formating and erasing? > > > > > You should learn to use Live Upgrade, then if an upgrade fails, you can > revert back to your previous version. > > You would be better working out what went wrong (knowing which version > you upgraded from would help) and fixing it.
Both of those sound like good pieces of advice to me -- particularly the bit about providing as much information as you can with a problem report, as we can't do much to fix "my Solaris stop working." But to answer the original question, yes, you can do that. I would suggest placing the Solaris installation on a separate disk slice (or a completely separate disk). When you do the re-install, you tell the installer to preserve the data slices and which disk to use. If you use ZFS, it's even easier, as you can import those file systems, and ZFS figures out where the old mount points go and all that. (With UFS, you'll need to keep this information written down somewhere so that you can restore the /etc/vfstab entries.) Of course, this is UNIX, and re-installing to fix problems seems at least a little odd ... -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
