Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am running Solaris from a 2008.05 installation of Solaris Express Community
> edition (build 93). I would like to upgrade to 2009.06 release developer
> edition. I found information on how to upgrade to 2009.06 from 2008.11 using
> the Update manager
> (http://webcast-west.sun.com/interactive/09D02123/index.html). However, I was
> wondering if I can upgrade directly from 2008.05. Is this likely to break
> things? Is it safer to just wipe out the system and reinstall 2009.06?
>
> The other problem I encountered is that there is no pkg utility in 2008.05
> community edition, which would be required to perform the upgrade I
> mentioned. I suppose I can install SUNWipkg package from the 2009.6 CD image,
> which contains the pkg utility. Do you know if this is likely to cause any
> compatibility problems?
Solaris Express Community Edition is a different OS than OpenSolaris 2008.05,
so you're not really running 2008.05 and any instructions applying to it won't
work for you.
The pkg image-update will only work between OpenSolaris releases - even if
you installed SUNWipkg on SXCE, it wouldn't be able to upgrade the existing
OS, only allow you to build a new OS image in a new filesystem that you could
then switch to - if you don't have much data on the system, a fresh install
will be much simpler and faster.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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