W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> so there is no way to upgrade under this
>> circumstance? In future releases, can we have a
>> feature where a DVD of packages be released which can
>> be used as an offline repository?
>> Is it possible? Can it be taken up as a project? If
>> so, what technologies would I need to use?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nischal E Rao
>
> What you can try is to use zfs to backup a snapshot of your current
> os0805-based system to an external storage ("zfs send"), install the os0811
> LiveCD over your current system, then restore your snapshot ("zfs receive")
> from the external storage.
>
That's not advisable unless you restrict the snapshot only to the user
data under rpool/export/home; snapshots of other datasets will overwrite
the installation with old bits.
Dave
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