* Gaiseric Vandal ([email protected]) wrote: > 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?
So, do you have any zones installed? If so, the time to upgrade with zones is substantial. Also, you're jumping quite a bit in versions. Traditionally, upgrading 30 builds via liveupgrade isn't the safest bet on the planet. That said.. > > 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. So, how will you plan to upgrade beyond 127 once liveupgrade goes away and sxce along with it? Sooner or later you'll need to switch over to the new way of doing things (which is downloading packages/updates via the internet). You have an unused second disk. What I would do in your position is create a zpool out of the second unused disk and migrate the data you want to keep from the first disk to the second. Then fresh install Opensolaris 2009.06 (or the latest dev build) on the first disk and migrate your data back. fwiw. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
