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Old 10th November 2010
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It is helpful to understand the upgrade process, and therefore, it is recommended that those attempting to do remote upgrades duplicate the remote infrastructure locally, and test thoroughly.

At least you are working locally, but it is unclear from your posts that you have ever run a standard, recommend upgrade, using an upgrade kernel. Understanding what that does, and how that works, will be an asset.

It is not clear you understand either the installation or upgrade processes. Let me level set:

The files that are installed during installation or upgrade are:
  • kernels: bsd, bsd.mp, bsd.rd
  • filesets: *.tgz
During an upgrade, the etc*.tgz fileset and the optional xetc*.tgz fileset are not installed. They are installed later, often with sysmerge(8) and even then some manual steps may be needed, as outlined in the upgrade guides for each release.

There are several .iso files available to aid with installations and upgrades. If above your are referring to install48.iso, this is a "...boot and installation CD-ROM image, which contains the base and X sets, so that install or upgrade can be done without network connectivity." This file is designed to be burned to optical media and booted. You will need access to the console, as described above. It is not designed or intended for remote use. It contains the filesets and kernels, on a CD9660 filesysetem. It is not a CD.

You can mount the image file and extract the filesets and kernels, using vnconfig(8) and mount(8) or mount_cd9660(8) per FAQ 14.11. Or you can burn and mount the CD.

Or you can download the individual filesets and kernels, which is what is commonly expected for those who are doing remote installations.
The other .iso files are used for CD image booting as well, but do not contain the filesets or kernels. (Well, they contain a bsd.rd kernel that is booted but that is all.)

Last edited by jggimi; 10th November 2010 at 02:30 PM.
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