Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without reinstalling OpenIndiana

2011-09-11 Thread Robin Axelsson
I also wish I had that but thankfully using snapshots goes a long way ... Thanks a lot for your suggestion, I will try that when it's time for the replacement. Regards Robin. On 2011-09-10 18:21, Tim Bell wrote: When you shut down your old system the final time: touch /reconfigure

[OpenIndiana-discuss] using dd

2011-09-11 Thread mattias
how to write a .img file to usb in openindiana with dd ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using dd

2011-09-11 Thread Sriram Narayanan
This is documented somewhere on the wiki, with links to the tools too! Please ensure that you validate the checksum of the image after a download. In case there are errors, you can always use rsync and update the local image file. Best of luck! :) -- Sriram On 9/11/11, mattias m...@mjw.se

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without reinstalling OpenIndiana

2011-09-11 Thread Robin Axelsson
That was an interesting link. I wonder if these steps really are necessary. It sure doesn't hurt to make a backup copy of /etc/path_to_inst but creating an empty reconfigure file at the root seems to be enough. To describe the instructions in the bug-report in words: (preparatory steps) 1.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without reinstalling OpenIndiana

2011-09-11 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
I'm not sure why all these steps would be necessary as they should be taken care of automatically when forcing a reconfigure in first place. Thanks for your post!   First there is no reason to repeat the steps. And no reconfigure does not work.In fact, the system will not be able to boot.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update fails with error about live image

2011-09-11 Thread weknox
I have seen this posted before but without a resolution. I'm trying to do an image-update from oi-148 to 151a. Here's the terminal output: weknox@antonio-gramsci:~# pkg image-update -f DOWNLOAD PKGS FILESXFER (MB) Completed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana b148 USB Image corrupt? (For Windows and Solaris)

2011-09-11 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 12 Sep, 2011,at 04:11 AM, Jonathan Leafty jleafty+openindianadisc...@gmail.com wrote: I've downloaded it now 3 times and the SHA/MD5 checks do not match. Anyone else seeing the same thing? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list