[OpenIndiana-discuss] clean install

[Hugh Coomes]

On 08/25/11 13:27, Kimmo Jaskari wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:31, Apostolos Syropoulos
> <asyropoulos at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>>   I have a system that runs the last version of OpenSolaris.
>> I am not sure but I think I read somewhere that it is possible
>> to create a new boot environment (BE) where I can have a clean
>> installation of any version of OpenIndiana. In different
>
> Just follow the instructions from:
>
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Installing+or+Upgrading#InstallingorUpgrading-UpgradingfromOpenSolaris
>
> It works fine. An upgrade using image-update will create a new boot
> environment and you can switch back and forth between them if you have
> issues with OpenIndiana. Basically a new snapshot is created and your
> old OpenSolaris doesn't get touched.
>
> Just don't upgrade your zfs pools to the latest versions of ZFS while
> you're on OpenIndiana - if you do that, you can't go back and boot
> into your OpenSolaris environments anymore. I did that... now I need
> to back up my RAIDZ and reinstall everything from scratch and then
> restore the data if I want to go back to OpenSolaris. :)
>
> After my upgrade to OI 148 I have issues with SSH (specifically, X
> forwarding) and Samba that I need to try to find a solution to, but
> that may be just me.
>
See the following for another method:

http://blogs.oracle.com/bobn/entry/solaris_and_opensolaris_coexistence_in