Opensolaris - Managing Boot Environments with beadm

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +1300

To get a list of all of your boot environments within Opensolaris use beadm like so….

beadm list

Assuming you know the name of the boot environment that is causing issues you can use the following command (using its name) to remove the ones you think are suss. Note: you need to boot up in the environment that you wish to keep first.

beadm destroy opensolaris-2

If you destroy an environment that is active on boot it will be changed to another be that is available. You can use the following command to set it to a specific boot environment;

Opensolaris - Updating solaris with the development repository

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +1300

Want to keep your opensolaris on the “edge” of developments? Most of the experience i have had is that the “dev” repository contains mainly stable releases that are being held until the next official release (every 6 months).

This is how you do it…

Launch Package Manager - and choose “settings” then “manage repositories”

Add the dev repository URL and give it a name.

NOTE: The name cannot contain any spaces!

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Opensolaris - Managing Boot Environments with beadm

Opensolaris - Updating solaris with the development repository