`<div dir="ltr">Hi Geoff,<div><br></div><div>This is what I did (in broad strokes):</div><div>1. create a new boot environment (beadm create)</div><div>2. receive the @initial snapshot of an OmniOS install over the created dataset</div><div>3. copy over some configuration files from /etc to the new boot environment</div><div>4. boot the new copy</div><div><br></div><div>It is not actually an upgrade, as an IPS based upgrade is not possible due to the way OmniOS versions packages.</div><div>This is the closest you can get, and will have some advantages over installing a fresh one:</div><div>1. will keep your old install, so you can go back if anything fails</div><div>2. in terms of downtime, it will be equivalent to an upgrade, as you won't be down during a fresh install (if all you need is the IP configuration and the data pool(s) imported) ...</div><div>This is not perfect, as you will have trouble finding an easy way to bring over your STMF configuration, and some other things kept in "binary" form from the OI root.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px"><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px;font-size:10px;font-family:Verdana">Dan Vâtca</p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px;font-size:10px;font-family:Verdana">CTO at Syneto</p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px;font-size:10px;font-family:Verdana">Tel: +40723604357, Skype: dan_vatca</p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.syneto.net/" target="_blank"><img src="https://syneto.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/storage_logo_icons8.png"></a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Geoff Nordli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffn@gnaa.net" target="_blank">geoffn@gnaa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 15-11-13 12:36 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:<br>
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On Nov 13, 2015, at 3:26 PM, Geoff Nordli <<a href="mailto:geoffn@gnaa.net" target="_blank">geoffn@gnaa.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hi.<br>
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I am migrating a couple of machines from OI to OmniOS.<br>
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Is it possible to install omnios into a new boot environment so I can keep both the install of OI and then boot between them?<br>
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Wow. I don't know. It's *theoretically possible* but I think you'd have to install OmniOS on a VM, zfs snapshot-and-send the rpool/ROOT/<be> to the OI box, and manually construct an OmniOS BE around that received ZFS snapshot, including adding GRUB entries.<br>
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Haven't tried it myself.<br>
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Dan<br>
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Thanks Dan, I will do some testing to see how it works.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Geoff</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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