[indiana-discuss] beadm question

[Ethan Quach]

dick hoogendijk wrote:
> My BE now is called droopy and is on the //dev repo.
> If I do a beadm create "osol-2009.06-release" will this preserve the
> original 2009.06 release. I mean, can I go on w/ the //dev repo and
> when activated and booted, set the repo for this "osol-2009.06-release"
> to opensolaris.org/release/ Or does this 2009.06 release change if I
> activate it? 

When you activate it, it simply means you're going to make
it the default boot environment the next time you reboot your
system.

The contents of it will be exactly what it was at the time
you created it.

> Or maybe I have to activate it now this droopy BE is still
> in "release" form?
>   

As you change droopy, this will not impact osol-2009.06-release ,
even if you decide to activate and boot it at a later time.


-ethan