[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fresh install to a new BE

[Hans J. Albertsson]

This is probably not what Gary meant.

As far as I can tell, the only way to do a fresh install to a new (and 
empty) BE is as follows:

Install, say, OI_148 in a VBox instance

In your standard, machine.wide OPEN SOLARIS, do:

beadm create OI-148
beadm mount OI-148 /a
cd /a
rm -rf <everything-in-/a>

Copy the image from the VBox OI_148 instance using cpio, into /a

do a beadm activate OI-148



2011-01-09 10:52, openindiana-discuss-request at openindiana.org skrev:

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:40:04 -0600
> From: Russ Price<rjp_sun at fubegra.net>
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> On 01/08/2011 06:19 AM, Gary Gendel wrote:
>    
>> Is it possible to do a fresh install to a new BE rather than image-update? This
>> would make it possible to go back to the previous BE in case there was an
>> installation problem?
>>      
>
> You can do an image-update that creates a new BE:
>
> pkg image-update --be-name oi_148
>
> would create a new BE named oi_148 for the upgraded image.
>