Calum Benson wrote: > 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.
...if there was a package repository on the CD, a depot server could be started locally and used to perform the upgrade. The primary reason you can't do upgrade with the Live CD is really because the Live CD can only be either used to copy raw bits to disk or to execute them for the Live CD. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
