[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] what should i do if i want to preserve my home when i install indiana

[Dave Miner]

Ethan Quach wrote:
> 
> Dave Miner wrote:
>> Jan Damborsky wrote:
>> ...
>>> I think (I might be wrong) there are no plans to preserve existing
>>> ZFS datasets in Slim installer during fresh installation.
>>>
>> Not specifically yet, but we need to work out a coexistent installation 
>> with Solaris 10.  That will likely require installing into the the same 
>> pool as a ZFS-installed Solaris 10 instance.
> 
> In addition, perhaps some sort of a "live-install" feature using
> the beadm/pkg commands would be useful.  By this I mean something
> similar to the old RFE for allowing a fresh installation into an
> existing BE.
> 
> I've played with this some and have gotten down the manual steps
> it would take to install 2008.05 along side nv_88 on my laptop.
> The steps are long and gruesome; we've got some work to do clean
> this up.
> 

Yes, I'd like that, too (though also including the GUI as an interface, 
not just the CLI's).

Dave