Solaris 10 5/09 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning

ProcedureTo Install Required Patches

  1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

    Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. If you are storing the patches on a local disk, create a directory such as /var/tmp/lupatches.

  3. From the SunSolve web site, obtain the list of patches.

  4. Change to the patch directory as in this example.


    # cd /var/tmp/lupatches
    
  5. Install the patches with the patchadd command.


    # patchadd path_to_patches patch-id  patch-id
    

    patch-id is the patch number or numbers. Separate multiple patch names with a space.


    Note –

    The patches need to be applied in the order specified in infodoc 206844.


  6. Reboot the system if necessary. Certain patches require a reboot to be effective.

    x86 only: Rebooting the system is required or Solaris Live Upgrade fails.


    # init 6
    

    You now have the packages and patches necessary for a successful creation of a new boot environment.