On May 3, 2010, at 7:55 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] >> >>> Once you register your original Solaris 10 OS for updates, are >>> you >>> unable to get updates on the removable OS? >> >> This is not a problem on Solaris 10. It can affect OpenSolaris, though. > > That's precisely the opposite of what I thought. Care to explain?
In Solaris 10, you are stuck with LiveUpgrade, so the root pool is not shared with other boot environments. -- richard > If you have a primary OS disk, and you apply OS Updates ... in order to > access those updates in Sol10, you need a registered account and login, with > paid solaris support. Then, if you boot a removable hard disk, and you wish > to apply updates to keep it at the same rev as the primary OS ... you've got > to once again enter your Sol10 update download credentials, and I don't > presume it works, or will always work for a 2nd installation of Sol10. > Aren't you supposed to pay for support on each OS installation? Doesn't > that mean you'd have to pay a separate support contract for the removable > boot hard drive? > > But in opensolaris, updates are free. Don't require any login credentials. > So if you update your primary OS, I see nothing to prevent you from booting > your removable disk, and applying the same updates to the 2nd OS. > > -- ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
