[OmniOS-discuss] Install issues

Scott LeFevre slefevre at indy.rr.com
Sun Aug 24 15:25:24 UTC 2014


Dan,

That did the trick.  I'm up on r151010. Thanks!

BTW, can this approach (with some modification) be used to move to
OmniOS from a running install of OpenIndiana for example?

> p.s. Technically I'm on vacation, so pardon any high latency in the
followup.
I didn't see any latency at all.  Thank you for the quick response.

Cheers,
-- 
Scott LeFevre
317-696-1010 

On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 09:49 -0400, Dan McDonald wrote:

> First off, I'm a little surprised the r151010 stick or ISO didn't boot for you.  I've been off in bloody development, so I know THAT ISO works.
> 
> > 
> > Any suggestions on how to get to r151010 which is where I want to be?
> 
> Try this:
> 
> 1.) Create a new boot environment:  beadm create 010
> 
> 2.) Mount it:  beadm mount 010 /mnt
>     (Assuming /mnt is empty, of course.)
> 
> 3.) Change the publisher on the new be:
>   pkg -R /mnt set-publisher -G http://pkg.omnti.com/omnios/release/ -g http://pkg.omniti.com/omnios/r151010 omnios
> 
> 4.) Upgrade the new BE:  pkg -R /mnt update
> 
> 5.) Unmount the new BE:  beadm umount 010
> 
> 6.) Reboot, but when GRUB shows up, select the "010" BE to test it.
> 
> If it works, you can use "beadm activate 010" to make it permanent.
> 
> Cheesy, but effective,
> Dan
> 
> p.s. Technically I'm on vacation, so pardon any high latency in the followup.
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