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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning |
Part I Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade
1. Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information
2. Solaris Live Upgrade (Overview)
3. Solaris Live Upgrade (Planning)
4. Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)
5. Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade (Tasks)
6. Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)
7. Maintaining Solaris Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)
8. Upgrading the Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
9. Solaris Live Upgrade (Examples)
10. Solaris Live Upgrade (Command Reference)
Part II Upgrading and Migrating With Solaris Live Upgrade to a ZFS Root Pool
11. Solaris Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)
12. Solaris Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)
13. Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools
14. Solaris Live Upgrade For ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed
Problems With Setting Up Network Installations
Problems With Booting a System
Booting From Media, Error Messages
Booting From Media, General Problems
Booting From the Network, Error Messages
Booting From the Network, General Problems
Initial Installation of the Solaris OS
To Continue Upgrading After a Failed Upgrade
x86: Problems With Solaris Live Upgrade When You Use GRUB
System Panics When Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade Running Veritas VxVm
x86: Service Partition Not Created by Default on Systems With No Existing Service Partition
To Install Software From a Network Installation Image or From the Solaris Operating System DVD
To Install From the Solaris Software - 1 CD or From a Network Installation Image
B. Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)
IDE disk drives do not automatically map out bad blocks like other drives supported by Solaris software. Before installing Solaris on an IDE disk, you might want to perform a surface analysis on the disk. To perform surface analysis on an IDE disk, follow this procedure.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
# format
# cxdy
Is the controller number
Is the device number
If a Solaris fdisk partition already exists, proceed to Step 7.
If a Solaris fdisk partition does not exist, use the fdisk command to create a Solaris partition on the disk.
format> fdisk
format> analyze
analyze> config
analyze> setup
analyze> type_of_surface_analysis
Is read, write, or compare
If format finds bad blocks, it remaps them.
analyze> quit
If no, go to Step 13.
If yes, type:
format> repair
quit
# exit