A question on BFU (knowing this might be outside this alias but would 
appreciate someone point me to the right discussion alias).

My intention is to upgrade systems with OpenSolaris  to check for some 
bug fixes (one in USB/DVD and the other in nVidia gigabit driver).

I used the bfu command to upgrade a system with OpenSolaris 08.11 to the 
nightly build following the instructions and archived bits from the 
following two url's. The bfu completed successfully but at the end, all 
commands (1M) like reboot would core dump. Power-off/on the system would 
no longer boot.

--- Sherman

http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/README.opensolaris
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/devref_toc/

Dave Miner wrote:
> Sherman Pun wrote:
>   
>> A follow-up question:
>>
>> [1] What is the difference between .iso and .iso.torrent?
>> [2] installadm(1M) does not understand .iso.torrent. Is there a program 
>> to convert the file format?
>> [3] which program(s) is usually the consumer of .iso.torrent?
>>
>>     
>
> A .torrent file provides a BitTorrent client, such as Transmission 
> (which is available in the OpenSolaris package repository), with the 
> metadata needed to download the file it references (in this case an 
> OpenSolaris ISO image) using the torrent peer-to-peer protocols. 
> Internal Sun users should generally get ISO's from nana.sfbay using ftp 
> or http clients.  Externally, you can download directly using http from 
> genunix.org.
>
> Dave
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