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Preface

Part I Planning to Install Over the Network

1.  Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  Preconfiguring System Configuration Information (Tasks)

3.  Preconfiguring With a Naming Service or DHCP

Part II Installing Over a Local Area Network

4.  Installing From the Network (Overview)

5.  Installing From the Network With DVD Media (Tasks)

6.  Installing From the Network With CD Media (Tasks)

7.  Patching the Miniroot Image (Tasks)

8.  Installing Over the Network (Examples)

9.  Installing From the Network (Command Reference)

Part III Installing Over a Wide Area Network

10.  WAN Boot (Overview)

11.  Preparing to Install With WAN Boot (Planning)

12.  Installing With WAN Boot (Tasks)

13.  SPARC: Installing With WAN Boot (Tasks)

14.  SPARC: Installing With WAN Boot (Examples)

15.  WAN Boot (Reference)

Part IV Appendixes

A.  Troubleshooting (Tasks)

Problems With Setting Up Network Installations

Problems With Booting a System

Error Messages When Booting From Media

General Problems When Booting From Media

Booting From the Network, Error Messages

General Problems When Booting From the Network

Initial Installation of the Oracle Solaris OS

x86: How to Check an IDE Disk for Bad Blocks

Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS

Upgrading Error Messages

General Problems When Upgrading

How to Continue Upgrading After a Failed Upgrade

x86: Problems With Live Upgrade When You Use GRUB

System Panics When Upgrading With Live Upgrade Running Veritas VxVM

How to Upgrade When Running Veritas VxVM

x86: Service Partition Not Created by Default on Systems With No Existing Service Partition

How to Include a Service Partition When Installing Software From a Network Installation Image or From the Oracle Solaris DVD

How to Include a Service Partition When Installing From the Oracle Solaris Software - 1 CD or From a Network Installation Image

B.  Installing or Upgrading Remotely (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

How to Upgrade When Running Veritas VxVM

When you use Live Upgrade while upgrading and running Veritas VxVM, the system panics on reboot unless you upgrade by using the following procedure. The problem occurs if packages do not conform to Oracle Solaris advanced packaging guidelines.

  1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

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


  2. Create an inactive boot environment. See Creating a New Boot Environment in Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning.
  3. Before upgrading the inactive boot environment, disable the existing Veritas software on the inactive boot environment.
    1. Mount the inactive boot environment.
      # lumount inactive-boot-environment-name mount-point

      For example:

      # lumount solaris8 /mnt 
    2. Change to the directory that contains the vfstabfile.
      # cd /mnt/etc
    3. Make a copy of the inactive boot environment's vfstab file.

      For example:

      # cp vfstab vfstab.501
    4. In the copied vfstab, comment out all Veritas file system entries.
      #  sed  '/vx\/dsk/s/^/#/g'  < vfstab >  vfstab.novxfs

      The first character of each line is changed to #, which makes the line a comment line. Note that this comment line is different than the system file-comment lines.

    5. Copy the changed vfstab file, for example:
      # cp vfstab.novxfs vfstab
    6. Change directories to the inactive boot environment's system file, for example:
      # cd /mnt/etc
    7. Make a copy of the inactive boot environment's system file, for example:
      # cp system system.501
    8. Comment out all “forceload:” entries that include drv/vx.
      # sed '/forceload:   drv\/vx/s/^/*/' <system> system.novxfs

      The first character of each line is changed to *, which makes the line a command line. Note that this comment line is different than the vfstab file comment lines.

    9. Create the Veritas install-db file, for example:
      # touch vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db
    10. Unmount the inactive boot environment.
      # luumount inactive-boot-environment-name 
  4. See Chapter 5, Upgrading With Live Upgrade (Tasks), in Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning. Upgrade the inactive boot environment.
  5. See Activating a Boot Environment in Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning. Activate the inactive boot environment.
  6. Shut down the system.
    # init 0
  7. Boot the inactive boot environment in single-user mode.
    OK boot -s

    Several messages and error messages that contain “vxvm” or “VXVM” are displayed that can be ignored. The inactive boot environment becomes active.

  8. Upgrade Veritas.
    1. Remove the Veritas VRTSvmsa package from the system, for example:
      # pkgrm VRTSvmsa
    2. Change directories to the Veritas packages.
      # cd /location-of-Veritas-software
    3. Add the latest Veritas packages to the system.
      #  pkgadd -d `pwd` VRTSvxvm VRTSvmsa VRTSvmdoc VRTSvmman VRTSvmdev
  9. Restore the original vfstab and system files.
    # cp /etc/vfstab.original /etc/vfstab
    # cp /etc/system.original /etc/system
  10. Reboot the system.
    # init 6

x86: Service Partition Not Created by Default on Systems With No Existing Service Partition

If you install the current Oracle Solaris release on a system that does not currently include a service or diagnostic partition, the installation program might not create a service partition by default. If you want to include a service partition on the same disk as the Oracle Solaris partition, you must re-create the service partition before you install the current Oracle Solaris release.

If you installed the Solaris 8 2/02 OS on a system with a service partition, the installation program might not have preserved the service partition. If you did not manually edit the fdisk boot partition layout to preserve the service partition, the installation program deleted the service partition during the installation.


Note - If you did not specifically preserve the service partition when you installed the Solaris 8 2/02 OS, you might not be able to re-create the service partition and upgrade to the current Oracle Solaris release.


If you want to include a service partition on the disk that contains the Oracle Solaris partition, choose one of the following workaround methods.