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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning     Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library
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Preface

Part I Upgrading With Live Upgrade

1.  Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  Live Upgrade (Overview)

3.  Live Upgrade (Planning)

4.  Using Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)

Installing Live Upgrade and Creating Boot Environments (Task Map)

Installing Live Upgrade

How to Install Live Upgrade With the pkgadd Command

How to Install Live Upgrade With the Oracle Solaris Installation Program

Installing Patches Needed by Live Upgrade

How to Install Required Patches

Creating a New Boot Environment

How to Create a Boot Environment for the First Time

How to Create a Boot Environment and Merge File Systems

How to Create a Boot Environment and Split File Systems

How to Create a Boot Environment and Reconfiguring Swap

How to Create a Boot Environment and Reconfigure Swap by Using a List

How to Create a Boot Environment and Copy a Shareable File System

How to Create a Boot Environment From a Different Source

How to Create an Empty Boot Environment for a Flash Archive

How to Create a Boot Environment With RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors)

Creating a Boot Environment and Customizing the Content

5.  Upgrading With Live Upgrade (Tasks)

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

7.  Maintaining Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)

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

9.  Live Upgrade Examples

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

10.  Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)

11.  Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)

12.  Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools

13.  Live Upgrade for ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed

Part III Appendices

A.  Live Upgrade Command Reference

B.  Troubleshooting (Tasks)

C.  Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)

D.  Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Chapter 4

Using Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)

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


Note - This chapter describes 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 12, Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools.


This chapter contains the following sections: