Posts tagged with: upgrade

Now that Solaris 11 is officially available, people are going to start seriously consider upgrading to it and one of the first questions is going to be: How do I upgrade my Solaris 10 or lower systems to Solaris 11?  Continue reading ►

After a series of developer previews for 0.7 and a lot of bug fixes, Habari is finally on the final furlong towards it's next official release - Habari 0.7.  Continue reading ►

One question that is bound to cross people's minds now Solaris 11 Express is out:  Continue reading ►

I think one of the best features of Solaris is the Live Upgrade mechanism. This really useful feature can be used for upgrading and patching with very little impact on the server. This means you can patch or upgrade your production system, whilst it's still in production, and only schedule a short outage for the reboot needed to activate the new patched/upgraded environment. Live upgrade also has the added benefit that you can roll back to a known good boot environment in the event something goes wrong.Sadly, it's not always a bed of roses when it comes to using live upgrade as things change with patches and new bugs are discovered and fixed, however most problems can be easily avoided with a little bit of pre-planning.  Continue reading ►

The pkg repositories have now been updated to included the 2009.06 pkgs (What's New preso - PDF). There is no need to perform a clean install, you can just use the Update Manager GUI to update your OpenSolaris 2008.11 release to 2009.06.  Continue reading ►

The latest stable build of Habari was pushed out the doors last night and is now available for download.There have quite a significant number of changes and improvements on the previous stable release (0.5.2) which are documented as follows in the release notes:  Continue reading ►

If you're eager to get your hands on OpenSolaris 2008.11, then you can get testing with the release candidate. It's been decided/announced that snv_101a will be the release candidate for 2008.11, and as is common the announcement includes details on how you can update and get testing now.  Continue reading ►

The OpenSolaris development package repository has been updated to reflect the changes in snv_97 including major fixes to the Caiman "Slim Install" and the Image Packaging System (IPS).  Continue reading ►

My little Ultra 20 under my desk runs with two boot environments and flip-flop between them as I upgrade using Live Upgrade. The basic procedure is: rename the old inactive BE (lurename), update it with the contents of the currently running BE (lumake), upgrade it to the latest and greatest (luupgrade), activate it (luactivate) and reboot.This is quite a pain free experience and has worked well for me. I never actually delete the alternate BE as I don't need the space. However, other people need to and ever since GRUB was introduced into Solaris 10 (x86 only) they encounter the following error when attempting to delete the BE that contains the GRUB menu:# ludelete -n snv_22ERROR: The boot environment contains the GRUB menu.ERROR: You are not allowed to delete this BE.Unable to delete boot environment.#This is a long standing issue (I've got a workaround if you want it) that has plagued many a sysadmin using Live Upgrade on Solaris 10 x86 and Nevada. Well, not any more.  Continue reading ►

lildude.co.uk is now running on Wordpress 2.5 RC2. Hopefully this will iron out some of the niggles I encountered with RC1. If you're tempted to upgrade, check out the screencast showing some of the cool new features.