>Sigh... I tried to avoid the brandZ discussion.
Ok, so that was the other optional interpretation I had in mind
but I couldn't locate the bit "and then upgrade it to the version
currently on the machine".
>1) Get the bits from an old machine onto a new machine (flarcreate
>then lucreate or similar).
>2) Upgrade those bits on the new machine to bits that are compatible
>with the global zone of the new machine.
Ok, something like:
- make fs with old stuff
- live upgrade old stuff to current bits
- zonify the bits
>In other words, this would be a path for getting some application that
>is "too hard" to install fresh into a new zone into that new zone.
>"Too hard" could be because the installation media was lost, everyone
>that knows anything about that application is gone (downsized,
>promoted + lobotomy, etc.), or there are just too many machines that
>need to be consolidated to do it in another manner.
I've done hard tricks by hand some times:
- removing all files installed as part of the OS which hadn't been
changed
- look at changes and incorporate
- take new file
- merge into zone
So what you're basically looking as is something which "extracts the
essence" of an installed system and transplants it to another system?
Casper
