Upgrading OpenSolaris 2008.05 to Later Versions of OpenSolaris

Upgrading OpenSolaris 2008.05 to Later Versions of OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris 2009.06 has been made available and can be installed on a system using the image-update facility provided by the pkg(1) command.

General instructions for updating from the OpenSolaris 2008.05 release to later versions of OpenSolaris

1. Before using the image-update subcommand, it is required that the latest available version of the IPS software and install libraries be installed for your current boot environment (BE)

    $ BUILD=`uname -v | sed -e "s/snv_//" -e "s/[a-z]//"`
    $ pfexec pkg refresh
    $ pfexec pkg install entire@0.5.11-0.${BUILD}
    $ pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg@0.5.11-0.${BUILD}
    $ pfexec pkg install SUNWinstall-libs 

1. Use image-update directly as follows

    $ pfexec pkg image-update

At this point, you can boot into the updated BE using reboot(1M) or init(1M) as usual.