John, Here is another way without virtualization, using zfs functionality and the fact that Indiana uses zfs as root filesystem: In the point of time, where you want to have rollback, create zfs snapshot using command (as root, or user with zfs privileges): $ zfs snapshot -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] where slim_install is the main zfs filesystem, which can be obtained running command: $ zfs list
than if something goes wrong, run Indiana from the livecd, use commands: $ zpool import this will list available pool names to import, you need to import listed one: $ zpool import -f pool_name (you need to use flag -f, since this pool was mounted before) than simply $ zfs rollback [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you are back to the point of the time, when you have created this snapshot. Of course you might want to create much more snapshots :) at the end reboot :) Whole operation takes less than 5min -- best Michal Pryc William D. Hathaway wrote: > John - > If you are spending a lot of time reconfiguring/rebooting Indiana > (or any other x86 OS) you might want to look at running it under VMWare. > > I use the vmware snapshot capability to allow me to roll back to a > known and running state with all my terminals setup and everything in > about 20 seconds. > > I'm using VMWare Fusion on a Mac, but the free VMWare server edition > which runs on top of Linux or Windows has the feature as well. > > > On Nov 20, 2007, at 4:44 PM, John Hawk wrote: > >> OK IpsPkgTool is almost ready still needs to be tested again but to >> be honest I'm getting a little tired of reconfiguring the computer >> over and over again. Hang in there it will be here soon. >> >> Secondly, I need to change to a thread intensive model on the next >> version. >> >> john >> -- >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> indiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
