Monday July 12, 2004

Live Upgrade I used to be the sort of techy person that would play with any new feature as soon as it was available, but these days I haven't the time. At least, that's my excuse for not having tried Live Upgrade on Solaris before. On Friday I wanted to upgrade my desktop to a more recent S10 build, and not wanting to be without it for half the day I tried LU for the first time.

Wow!

I don't think I've found any command with as high a functionality:namelength ratio before! Just type lu, and up comes a menu. A few taps on a keyboard, type in the path to the packages, <enter> once or twice, and its ready. A couple of hours later, reboot, and the upgrade is done with almost no downtime. Even the inevitable tidying up, to restore my customizations, is easy when I can have each environment side-by-side in terminal windows.

Now, I always knew, intellectually speaking, that LU was supposed to be that easy, but actually seeing it happen so smoothly is just amazing.

Hey guys, this is neat! (2004-07-12 05:49:37.0) Permalink