smartos-platform-upgrade

smartos-platform-upgrade

A script to simplify upgrades of USB booted SmartOS installations.

Installation

Drop the script in /opt/local/bin on the GZ.

Usage

Run the script. It'll find the USB stick, download the latest platform from Joyent, do the upgrade and report its status. The download and update platform stages will probably take a few minutes each.

[root@00-25-90-7d-03-8b ~]# platform-upgrade
Checking current boot device... detected /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p1, mounted, OK
Downloading latest platform... OK
Verifying checksum... OK
Extracting platform... OK
Updating platform on boot device... OK
Activating new platform on boot device... OK

Boot device upgraded. To do:

 1) Sanity check the contents of /tmp/tmp.KCaawL/usb
 2) umount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p1
 3) reboot
[root@00-25-90-7d-03-8b ~]# 

Once the upgrade is done, verify that the contents of the USB stick looks sane, unmount it and reboot to the new platform.

[root@00-25-90-7d-03-8b ~]# ls -l /tmp/tmp.KCaawL/usb
total 24
drwxrwxrwx   1 root     root        4096 Jan  3  2011 boot
drwxrwxrwx   1 root     root        4096 Dec 28 16:03 platform
drwxrwxrwx   1 root     root        4096 Dec 28 15:24 platform.old
[root@00-25-90-7d-03-8b ~]# ls -l /tmp/tmp.KCaawL/usb/platform
total 9
drwxrwxrwx   1 root     root        4096 Dec 28 16:03 i86pc
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          17 Dec 28 02:40 root.password
[root@00-25-90-7d-03-8b ~]# umount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p1
[root@00-25-90-7d-03-8b ~]# reboot

By default, the first removable device found is assumed to be the boot USB stick. If this is not the case, the correct device name can be given on the command line:

[root@00-25-90-38-94-04 ~]# platform-upgrade /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p1
Checking current boot device... using /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p1, mounted, OK
Downloading latest platform...