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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning
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Preface

Part I Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade

1.  Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Overview)

3.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Planning)

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

To Install Solaris Live Upgrade With the pkgadd Command

To Install Solaris Live Upgrade With the Solaris Installation Program

Installing Patches Needed by Solaris Live Upgrade

To Install Required Patches

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)

6.  Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)

7.  Maintaining Solaris Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)

8.  Upgrading the Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed

9.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Examples)

10.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Command Reference)

Part II Upgrading and Migrating With Solaris Live Upgrade to a ZFS Root Pool

11.  Solaris Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)

12.  Solaris Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)

13.  Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools

14.  Solaris Live Upgrade For ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed

Part III Appendices

A.  Troubleshooting (Tasks)

B.  Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)

C.  Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Chapter 4

Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)

This chapter explains how to install Solaris Live Upgrade packages and patches and to create a boot environment.


Note - This chapter describes Solaris Live Upgrade for UFS file systems. For procedures for migrating a UFS file system to a ZFS root pool or creating and installing a ZFS root pool, see Chapter 13, Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools.


This chapter contains the following sections: