On 12 Dec 2008, at 09:12, Nischal wrote: > Hi, > > I got the OpenSolaris2008.11 and I wanted to upgrade 2008.05 to > 2008.11. > I was really surprised that the GRUB didn't give me an upgrade > option like it does in fedora, ubuntu etc ( i am new to opensolaris). > I am rather curious why this facility has not been added. Is there > any particular problem involved in adding this facility?
Upgrading requires access to a package repository that contains the new packages, but unlike most Linux package managers, IPS can't currently treat a CD as a package repository. Therefore the only way to upgrade right now is to talk to a package repository over the network. (I guess it might still be possible to put an item in the boot menu to achieve that, but it would still have to pull the bits over the net rather than off the CD.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[email protected] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
