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Monday Jun 23, 2008

Here are the four commands i entered in a terminal to update OpenSolaris 2008 to the latest build 91:

# pfexec pkg refresh

# pfexec pkg image-update

(# beadm list)

# pfexec mount -F zfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2 /mnt

# pfexec /mnt/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub -R /mnt

The full procedure is indicated here.

By comparison to Nevada, the Solaris Express Community edition i have been using since build 54 in December 2006, here are some numbers:


 Nevada OpenSolaris 
Comment
 Time to upgrade
~ 5 hours
~1hour and 40 minutes
With OpenSolaris, there is always a possibility to roll back
 Time to boot
~ 3 minutes
~ 1 minute
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Isn't it enticing?


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