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Solaris 10 8/07 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning
Index
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Book Information
Preface
Who Should Use This Book
Related Books
Documentation, Support, and Training
Typographic Conventions
Shell Prompts in Command Examples
Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade
1. Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information
Where to Find Planning and System Requirement Information
2. Solaris Live Upgrade (Overview)
Solaris Live Upgrade Introduction
Solaris Live Upgrade Process
3. Solaris Live Upgrade (Planning)
Solaris Live Upgrade Requirements
Upgrading a System With Packages or Patches
Guidelines for Creating File Systems With the lucreate Command
Guidelines for Selecting Slices for File Systems
Customizing a New Boot Environment's Content
Synchronizing Files Between Boot Environments
x86: Activating a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu
Solaris Live Upgrade Character User Interface
4. Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)
Task Map: Installing Solaris Live Upgrade and Creating Boot Environments
Installing Solaris Live Upgrade
Installing Patches Needed by Solaris Live Upgrade
To Install Solaris Live Upgrade With the pkgadd Command
To Install Solaris Live Upgrade With the Solaris Installation Program
Creating a New Boot Environment
To Create a Boot Environment for the First Time
To Create a Boot Environment and Merge File Systems
To Create a Boot Environment and Split File Systems
To Create a Boot Environment and Reconfiguring Swap
To Create a Boot Environment and Reconfigure Swap by Using a List
To Create a Boot Environment and Copy a Shareable File System
To Create a Boot Environment From a Different Source
To Create an Empty Boot Environment for a Solaris Flash Archive
To Create a Boot Environment With RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors)
To Create a Boot Environment and Customize the Content
5. Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade (Tasks)
Task Map: Upgrading a Boot Environment
Upgrading a Boot Environment
Guidelines for Upgrading
To Upgrade a Network Installation Image on a Boot Environment
To Upgrade a Network Installation Image From Multiple CDs
To Add Packages to a Network Installation Image on a Boot Environment
To Add Patches to a Network Installation Image on a Boot Environment
To Obtain Information on Packages Installed on a Boot Environment
Upgrading by Using a JumpStart Profile
Installing Solaris Flash Archives on a Boot Environment
To Install a Solaris Flash Archive on a Boot Environment
To Install a Solaris Flash Archive With a Profile
To Install a Solaris Flash Archive With a Profile Keyword
Activating a Boot Environment
Requirements and Limitations for Activating a Boot Environment
To Activate a Boot Environment
To Activate a Boot Environment and Synchronize Files
x86: Activating a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu
x86: To Activate a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu
6. Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)
SPARC: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment
SPARC: To Fall Back Despite Successful New Boot Environment Activation
SPARC: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation
SPARC: To Fall Back to the Original Boot Environment by Using a DVD, CD, or Net Installation Image
x86: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment
x86: To Fall Back Despite Successful New Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu
x86: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu
x86: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu and the DVD or CD
7. Maintaining Solaris Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)
Overview of Solaris Live Upgrade Maintenance
Displaying the Status of All Boot Environments
To Display the Status of All Boot Environments
Updating a Previously Configured Boot Environment
To Update a Previously Configured Boot Environment
Canceling a Scheduled Create, Upgrade, or Copy Job
To Cancel a Scheduled Create, Upgrade, or Copy Job
Comparing Boot Environments
To Compare Boot Environments
Deleting an Inactive Boot Environment
To Delete an Inactive Boot Environment
Displaying the Name of the Active Boot Environment
To Display the Name of the Active Boot Environment
Changing the Name of a Boot Environment
To Change the Name of an Inactive Boot Environment
Adding or Changing a Description Associated With a Boot Environment Name
To Add or Change a Description for a Boot Environment Name With Text
To Add or Change a Description for a Boot Environment Name With a File
To Determine a Boot Environment Name From a Text Description
To Determine a Boot Environment Name From a Description in a File
To Determine a Boot Environment Description From a Name
Viewing the Configuration of a Boot Environment
To View the Configuration of a Boot Environment
8. x86: Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File (Tasks)
x86: Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File (Tasks)
Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst file
Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File When the active menu.lst file is in Another Boot Environment
Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File When a Solaris Live Upgrade Boot Environment is Mounted
Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File When Your System Has an x86 Boot Partition
9. Upgrading the Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade and Installed Non-Global Zones (Overview)
Creating and Upgrading a Boot Environment When Non-Global Zones Are Installed (Tasks)
Creating a Boot Environment When a Non-Global Zone Is on a Separate File System
Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade When Non-Global Zones Are Installed on a System (Tasks)
Upgrading a System With Non-Global Zones Installed (Example)
Administering Boot Environments That Contain Non-Global Zones
To View the Configuration of a Boot Environment's Non-Global Zone File Systems
To Compare Boot Environments for a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
Using the lumount Command on a System That Contains Non-Global Zones
10. Solaris Live Upgrade (Examples)
Example of Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade
Example of Detaching and Upgrading One Side of a RAID-1 Volume (Mirror)
Example of Migrating From an Existing Volume to a Solaris Volume Manager RAID-1 Volume
Example of Creating an Empty Boot Environment and Installing a Solaris Flash Archive
11. Solaris Live Upgrade (Command Reference)
Solaris Live Upgrade Command-Line Options
Appendices
A. Troubleshooting (Tasks)
Problems With Setting Up Network Installations
Problems With Booting a System
Initial Installation of the Solaris OS
x86: To Check IDE Disk for Bad Blocks
Upgrading the Solaris OS
Upgrading, Error Messages
Upgrading, General Problems
To Continue Upgrading After a Failed Upgrade
x86: Problems With Solaris Live Upgrade When You Use GRUB
System Panics When Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade Running Veritas VxVm
x86: Service Partition Not Created by Default on Systems With No Existing Service Partition
To Install Software From a Network Installation Image or From the Solaris Operating System DVD
To Install From the Solaris Software - 1 CD or From a Network Installation Image
B. Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)
Preventing Modification of the Current OS
Preventing User Interaction When Installing or Upgrading
Setting Package Parameters For Zones
For Background Information
C. Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading (Tasks)
Upgrading to a Solaris Update Release
To Run the analyze_patches Script
To Review the Patch Analyzer Output
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