Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning

Procedurex86: (Optional) To Update the Boot Diskette Before Activating

Steps
  1. Insert the Solaris 10 3/05 Device Configuration Assistant diskette. This is either the existing diskette that is overwritten or a new diskette.

  2. Update the boot diskette with the latest image for this release.

  3. Eject the boot diskette.

  4. Type:


    volcheck
    
  5. Copy the new boot environment's boot/solaris/bootenv.rc file to the diskette.


    cp /a/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc /floppy/floppy0/solaris/bootenv.rc
    
  6. Check the input device and output device on the diskette. If they are incorrect, then update them.

    You are ready to activate the new boot environment.