Hi, I will point you to my article ;) http://developers.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/opensolaris/bootenvironments/index.html
best Michal Pryc Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > Thanks to all who responded. > > There is one more thing. What exactly is the definition of a "boot > environment"? > Alfred said it's a ZFS snapshot. From what I understand of ZFS, it > doesn't have the (old) concept of file systems mounted on disk > partitions. So does the ZFS snapshot mean that the snapshot will > contain my entire disk? /usr, /opt /export/home, etc? Or what does it > mean? > > Kostas > > Michal Pryc wrote: >> Kostas Oikonomou wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am running 2008.11, and I am considering upgrading to a later >>> build, say 110. >>> The problem is that I also have a few non-IPS packages installed. >>> For example, Qt 4 from SFE. This is an SVR4 package that installs >>> into /usr. >>> >>> If I upgrade to a later build using ''pkg image-update'' >>> >>> 1. Will the old (saved) boot environment contain my non-IPS packages, >>> or will they be lost? >> They should be preserved, but if any of the IPS package will contain >> the same file as the SVR4 package it will be overridden by the IPS one. >> >>> 2. Will the new boot environment contain them, or will I need to >>> re-install them? >> It should contain, but as I said some files might be overridden. >> >> best >> Michal Pryc >>
