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Solaris 9 Installation Guide

To Create a Profile to be Used by Solaris Live Upgrade

This procedure shows you how to create a profile for use with Solaris Live Upgrade. You can use this profile to upgrade an inactive boot environment by using the luupgrade command with the -j option.

For procedures to use this profile, see the following sections:

  1. Use a text editor to create a text file.

    Name the file descriptively. Ensure that the name of the profile reflects how you intend to use the profile to install the Solaris software on a system. For example, you might name this profile upgrade_solaris9.

  2. Add profile keywords and values to the profile.

    Only the following upgrade keywords can be used in a Solaris Live Upgrade profile.

    Table 33–2 Live Upgrade Profile Keywords and Descriptions

    Keyword 

    Description 

    (Required) Install_type

    Defines whether to upgrade the existing Solaris environment on a system or install a Solaris Flash archive on the system. The values are upgrade or flash_install.

    (Optional) archive_location

    Retrieves a Solaris Flash archive from a designated location. For a list of values that can be used with this keyword, see archive_location Keyword.

    (Optional) cluster (adding or deleting clusters)

    Designates whether a cluster is to be added or deleted from the software group that is to be installed on the system. For a list of values that can be used with this keyword, see cluster Profile Keyword (Adding Software Groups).

    (Optional) geo

    Designates the regional locale or locales that you want to install on a system or to add when upgrading a system. For a list of values that can be used with this keyword, see geo Profile Keyword.

    (Optional) isa_bits

    Specifies whether 64-bit or 32-bit Solaris 9 packages are to be installed. For a list of values that can be used with this keyword, see isa_bits Profile Keyword.

    (Optional) locale

    Designates the locale packages you want to install or add when upgrading. For a list of values that can be used with this keyword, see locale Profile Keyword.

    (Optional) package

    Designates whether a package is to be added to or deleted from the software group that is to be installed on the system. For a list of values that can be used with this keyword, see package Profile Keyword.

  3. Save the profile in a directory on the local system.

  4. Ensure that root owns the profile and that the permissions are set to 644.

  5. Test the profile (optional).

    For a procedure to test the profile, see To Test a Profile to Be Used By Solaris Live Upgrade.

Example 33–3 Creating a Profile to Be Used With Solaris Live Upgrade

In this example, a profile provides the upgrade parameters. This profile is to be used to upgrade an inactive boot environment with the Solaris Live Upgrade luupgrade command and the -u and -j options. This profile adds a package and a cluster. A regional locale and additional locales are also added to the profile. If you add locales to the profile, make sure that you have created a boot environment with additional disk space. 

# profile keywords         profile values
# ----------------         -------------------
  install_type             upgrade
  package                  SUNWxwman add
  cluster                  SUNWCacc add
  geo                      C_Europe
  locale                   zh_TW
  locale                   zh_TW.BIG5
  locale                   zh_TW.UTF-8
  locale                   zh_HK.UTF-8
  locale                   zh_HK.BIG5HK
  locale                   zh
  locale                   zh_CN.GB18030
  locale                   zh_CN.GBK
  locale                   zh_CN.UTF-8