[OpenIndiana-discuss] Faking an empty boot environment?

[Jim Klimov]

3 октября 2016 г. 16:00:31 CEST, Hans J Albertsson <hans.j.albertsson at gmail.com> пишет:
>Lucreate in solaris 9 had the ability to create än emty BE where you
>could
>then install  a flash archive of a different version of the same
>general os
>variety.
>This was most useful for getting to a more recent version of an old os
>that
>for some complex reason failed to upgrade.
>
>I suppose you could just create a new file system under /rpool and then
>zfs
>send/recv the version you want into that and make that file system
>bootable. And if you do all that from a live install image it should be
>manageable w/o too much work.
>
>What say you, could it be done?
>
>I am a bit weak in "manually making a file system bootable" so if you
>could
>say something about that I'd be most grateful.
>
>I have a situation where I'd like to put hipster in a new boot
>environment
>in a machine that runs oi 151a7 with major sw issues that prevent any
>and
>all attempts at upgrading.
>
>And it needs to stay up...
>
>Hans J. Albertsson
>From my Nexus 5
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Yes, it is a sound plan, see my articles on Advanced installation on the OI and/or illumos wikis.
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