-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hugh McIntyre wrote: | Matt Harrison wrote: |> |> Kristian Rink wrote: |> | Hmmmm, what kind of installation medium did you initially use to |> install |> | OpenSolaris from? IIRC the IPS facility (and thus the pkg command) |> | was/is just included in more recent OpenSolaris builds, especially the |> | Indiana TPs and OS 2008.05... Maybe your installation "just" was too |> old |> | to already have this tools included? |> |> This machine was installed from an svn_89 dvd image that I downloaded |> from the opensolaris.org site. I've got an svn_91 image here as well, |> maybe its included on that? | | The "pkg" commands are only on OpenSolaris, e.g, the 2008.05 release. | | snv_89 or _91 is the classic Solaris version instead, so no "pkg" | commands. There's also no "updatemanager", since this is for patches on | a released OS such as Solaris 10, not Nevada. Instead, for snv_91, | you're *supposed* to be able to either: | | - boot from a DVD of the snv_91 image and select an upgrade install. | This may fail though if it thinks your system is not upgradable for | whatever reason (which it may not explain). Such as low disk space, | corrupted package DB, for example. | | - or you can use "live upgrade" while the old OS is running. | | So I can't explain why the upgrade fails. Maybe ask on the | install-discuss mailing list, or opensolaris-help? But the "pkg" | command is definitely not going to work to upgrade snv_*. | | Hugh.
Hehe, I seem to have got a bit confused between OpenSolaris the distribution and the SCXE which I'm running (just checked what I actually downloaded). I'm installing a new fileserver with CIFS/ZFS, is OpenSolaris (the distro) going to work just as well or better than Nevada? I'm only using a Nevada build as that is what was recommended on a ZFS blog, who's instructions I was trying to follow. Incidentally, I've managed to get the update option to work from snv_91 image, so it seems I do have an upgrade path of sorts should I decide to stick with Nevada. and for my previous posts s/svn/snv/g. Just out of interest what does snv stand for, "sun version"? I always thought it was the svn revision number. Thanks - -- Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mattharrison.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkhjdZcACgkQxNZfa+YAUWEggACbBzq7YIDO2czgnShNSZH9Cbzp YckAoJHXuqxOyv0XUTcQ9++bL/ustzM+ =0LKW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
