[OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with some error while upgrading to latest open indiana

[Timothy Coalson]

There is an intermediate hipster snapshot that is preserved for the purpose
of *testing* a migration from dev 151a9 to hipster, with a process outlined
here:

https://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=30802657

It worked for me within the last month on a fairly basic OI install, though
I stayed at that snapshot, and didn't try to continue to rolling hipster
updates.  Remember the usual disclaimers about hipster, as it is rolling
release, being more of a testing distribution and not recommended for
production (rolling releases will inevitably break things now and then).

Tim


On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:

> Zoltan Farkas via openindiana-discuss
> <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> writes:
>
> > I am trying to upgrade to latest openindiana, I am getting some
> > errors due to some lib being obsolete. any help appreciated, here is
> > the detail:
>
> [...]
>
> I think the sort of normal advice I've seen here is if possible do an
> install from scratch.
>
> I just made the move you are attempting about 1.5 mnths ago.  First I
> tried doing an upgrade in a vm I had on another machine from 151* to
> hipster.
>
> I did not work, but I've lost track of the problems that came up.
>
> I was leery of bringing down my solaris host to do a `from scratch'
> install, imagining all kinds of things I might run into and then the
> machine would be down for who knows how long.
>
> I'm pretty inexperienced with solaris and openindiana.
>
> But I braved up and tried it.  I used the 161030 iso, and really had
> no trouble getting thru it.
>
> This is on an HP xw8600 workstation.
>
> So, although I really did not answer your question:
>
>   I was pleasantly surprised, so I'd recommend you try `from scratch'.
>   Unless your hardware has already proven itself to be seriously
>   troublesome.
>
>
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