[geeks] Solaris CD ISOs?

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Sat Jan 30 16:42:30 CST 2010


On 01/30/10 15:16, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:18:10 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Further to the previous question:
>> The ZFS pools on babylon4 are a newer ZFS version than the Solaris x86
>> CDs I have (which are 10/2008). 
> 
> You could try an OpenSolaris distribution such as Belenix
> (http://www.belenix.org/). There seems to be a CD-sized ISO image, and
> it should have a late enough ZFS build to look at babylon4's pools (but
> you may still have to do a 'zfs import'). Just don't try a 'zfs
> upgrade' :)

Belenix finds the pools and says they're online, but can't import them
because they're a newer ZFS version than Belenix has.  I guess I need to
swap in a DVD drive so that I can try booting it from the Solaris 10/09 DVD.


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