> What IS the best way to upgrade software? I've tried > Live Upgrade, but the first time I tried, the > upgraded partition wouldn't boot correctly, and since > it's installing the entire root all over again, it > takes a really long time.
It doesn't actually re-install 'the entire root' all over again, and that might be where it blew up on you. In my experiences, LiveUpgrade appears to only upgrade the metacluster and any other packages installed on the machine. It doesn't appear to always properly add packages that might have been added to the metacluster in certain circumstances. This means it isn't out of the realm of impossibility to create a non-bootable machine in some instances. For example, I had a S9 box installed with SUNWCreq+other packages that I attempted to LU to S10. It had some significant issues because for some reason the zone packages didn't get installed as part of the LU. So if you're using anything less than SUNWCuser, you'll likely need to do the upgrade the slow way. This message posted from opensolaris.org
