[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from 134b to 148 fails

[Daniel Kjar]

  I have it running perfectly on a v40z and that was an upgrade from 
134. It was a very clean 134 install though, I believe srss and 
sunstudio were the only 'additional' packages I had install in 134.

On 01/ 6/11 07:56 AM, Gary Gendel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting very frustrated with OpenIndiana installation issues.  It 
> works fine in a VirtualBox environment, but I haven't been able to try 
> it on bare metal.
>
> Thinkpad Z61p running oi_147:
> * LiveCD install doesn't recognize built-in keyboard or mouse.
> * If updated from repository, boot hangs  Nothing special in kernel 
> debugging output.
>
> Sun V20z running os_134b:
> * Tried to update from repository.  Remove phase had lots of warnings 
> about directories not empty.  Update phase dies in a python traceback 
> because a file that it wanted to create already existed.
>
> What are my options for the V20z?  This system is the heart of my home 
> network, providing DNS, email, file, dhcp, nat, web, etc. services. 
> This machine started with os_64 and I've never had an upgrade issue 
> like this.  I don't want to hose this machine trying to get 
> OpenIndiana installed.  How can I provide information that will help 
> track down the installation problems?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
>
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