How to Mount and Update a Boot Environment

1. Become an administrator.

   For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

2. Mount the boot environment.

   # beadm mount BeName mount-point

3. (Optional)Update packages on the boot environment by using the pkg command.

   For example, you can use the pkg install command with the –R option to update specific packages on the boot environment.

   # pkg -R /mnt install package-name

   where /mnt is the mount point for the boot environment.