Bart Smaalders wrote: > Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: >>> But note that Live Upgrade runs on the previous version of Solaris; >>> it is only necessary that the packaging DB in a proper state when >>> that finishes. >> But you do understand that live upgraded S10 partitions (upgraded >> to S11 (with new improved package tools and which has additional >> software added) can then be upgraded from an S9 alternate root to >> S11+) >> >> Casper > > No, actually, I don't understand, but I guess I'm not parsing > the above correctly. > > An S10 partition that was upgraded to S11 using Live Upgrade > can then be upgraded to Solaris 11 while booted using an > a Solaris 9 boot environment. > > How does this work if the SOlaris 10 partition contains zones? >
Right now, it doesn't at all, since you can't LU with zones, anyway. I believe we're going to be in a position, though, where you won't be able to run that upgrade from Solaris 9. ZFS will cause a similar discontinuity. This is one of the architectural problems I'm trying to figure out how to address for the future. Dave
