Well, liveupgrade worked a charm, I'm now running Nevada build 36, under
Parallels beta 3.
Must admit I'm a bit confused, the ISO on the disk wouldn't work properly using
standard Solaris install, but using Liveupgrade it was fine....
If you're curious, I formatted my disk as follows :
Partition 0 : 8GB (This was the original Solaris 10 01/06
Partition 3 : 8GB (For the new environment)
Partition 7 : 4GB For export home.
So whilst running Solaris from partition 0, type the following :
cd /cdrom/Sol11_X86/Solaris_11/Tools/Installers
./liveupgrade20
lucreate -A 'Nevada Build 36' -m /:/dev/dsk/c0d0s3:ufs -n build36
luupgrade -u -n build36 -s /cdrom/Sol11_X86
luactivate -s build36
where:
/cdrom0/Sol11_X86 is the location of your ISO image
build36 is the name of your alternate boot environment
and Liveupgrade does the rest, even editing your GRUB menu for you. It took
about 2 hours to do the upgrade but I could still use the system whilst it did
it's work.
Now going forward I can install future releases either by overwriting slice 0
or slice 3 - depending on which version I think is more stable !
After the Easter break, I'll get the BrandZ aware ISO image and have linux
containers, running under Solaris on Mac OSX !
Richard
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