S. Hakim Hamdani wrote: > Hi All, > > I just received a DVD of build 77 for x86, since I am professionally in > Central Asia and can't download build after build via my small and bad > internet connection. Anyway, I am running build 68 and wanted originally to > upgrade to b72 because of some small bugfixes specific to my laptop. Alas, I > didn't manage and atfer receiving my DVD today wanted to just upgrade to b77. > Saw the new installer, nice, but got stuck after selecting upgrade. > > I am presented with the disk selection screen, it correctly sees build 68 > installed but reports "Meta cluser is wrong" (I searched the forums, there's > no single entry on this apparently) and that "no upgradeable Solaris > environment" was found. > The caiman installer uses the metacluster SUNWCXall (Entire Distribution plus OEM support). If you have used caiman installer to so the initial install, it would have installed SUNWCXall. If you have installed a different metacluster, then you cannot use caiman installer to upgrade your system. Select the Solaris Express install from your grub menu to upgrade your system.
- Sundar > I am somewhat dumbfounded by this. Is the new installer not capable of > upgrading a pre-Caiman install? I'd be very happy to hear from anyone who can > provide info as to how to upgrade the system as i simply don't have the > luxury of doing a complete reinstall. > > Thanks in advance! > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20080111/0902cd78/attachment.html>
