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Solaris 10 5/08 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning
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Preface
Part I Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade
Chapter 1 Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information
Where to Find Planning and System Requirement Information
Chapter 2 Solaris Live Upgrade (Overview)
Solaris Live Upgrade Introduction
Solaris Live Upgrade Process
Creating a Boot Environment
File System Types
Creating RAID-1 Volumes on File Systems
Copying File Systems
Examples of Creating a New Boot Environment
Creating a Boot Environment With RAID-1 Volume File Systems
How to Manage Volumes With Solaris Live Upgrade
Mapping Solaris Volume Manager Tasks to Solaris Live Upgrade
Examples of Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Create RAID-1 Volumes
Create RAID-1 Volume on Two Physical Disks
Create a Boot Environment and Use the Existing Submirror
Upgrading a Boot Environment
Activating a Boot Environment
Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment
Maintaining a Boot Environment
Chapter 3 Solaris Live Upgrade (Planning)
Solaris Live Upgrade Requirements
Solaris Live Upgrade System Requirements
Solaris Live Upgrade Restrictions
Installing Solaris Live Upgrade
Required Packages
Solaris Live Upgrade Disk Space Requirements
Solaris Live Upgrade Requirements if Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors)
Upgrading a System With Packages or Patches
Guidelines for Creating File Systems With the lucreate Command
Guidelines for Selecting Slices for File Systems
Guidelines for Selecting a Slice for the root (/) File System
Guidelines for Selecting Slices for Mirrored File Systems
General Guidelines When Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrored) File Systems
Checking Status of Volumes
Detaching Volumes and Resynchronizing Mirrors
Using Solaris Volume Manager Commands
Guidelines for Selecting a Slice for a Swap File System
Configuring Swap for the New Boot Environment
Failed Boot Environment Creation if Swap is in Use
Guidelines for Selecting Slices for Shareable File Systems
Customizing a New Boot Environment's Content
Synchronizing Files Between Boot Environments
Adding Files to the /etc/lu/synclist
Forcing a Synchronization Between Boot Environments
x86: Activating a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu
Solaris Live Upgrade Character User Interface
Chapter 4 Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)
Task Map: Installing Solaris Live Upgrade and Creating Boot Environments
Installing Solaris Live Upgrade
Installing Patches Needed by Solaris Live Upgrade
To Install Required Patches
To Install Solaris Live Upgrade With the pkgadd Command
To Install Solaris Live Upgrade With the Solaris Installation Program
Creating a New Boot Environment
To Create a Boot Environment for the First Time
To Create a Boot Environment and Merge File Systems
To Create a Boot Environment and Split File Systems
To Create a Boot Environment and Reconfiguring Swap
To Create a Boot Environment and Reconfigure Swap by Using a List
To Create a Boot Environment and Copy a Shareable File System
To Create a Boot Environment From a Different Source
To Create an Empty Boot Environment for a Solaris Flash Archive
To Create a Boot Environment With RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors)
To Create a Boot Environment and Customize the Content
Chapter 5 Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade (Tasks)
Task Map: Upgrading a Boot Environment
Upgrading a Boot Environment
Guidelines for Upgrading
Upgrading a System With Packages or Patches
To Upgrade a Network Installation Image on a Boot Environment
To Upgrade a Network Installation Image From Multiple CDs
To Add Packages to a Network Installation Image on a Boot Environment
To Add Patches to a Network Installation Image on a Boot Environment
To Obtain Information on Packages Installed on a Boot Environment
Upgrading by Using a JumpStart Profile
To Create a Profile to be Used by Solaris Live Upgrade
To Test a Profile to Be Used by Solaris Live Upgrade
To Upgrade With a Profile by Using Solaris Live Upgrade
Installing Solaris Flash Archives on a Boot Environment
To Install a Solaris Flash Archive on a Boot Environment
To Install a Solaris Flash Archive With a Profile
To Install a Solaris Flash Archive With a Profile Keyword
Activating a Boot Environment
Requirements and Limitations for Activating a Boot Environment
To Activate a Boot Environment
To Activate a Boot Environment and Synchronize Files
x86: Activating a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu
x86: To Activate a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu
Chapter 6 Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)
SPARC: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment
SPARC: To Fall Back Despite Successful New Boot Environment Activation
SPARC: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation
SPARC: To Fall Back to the Original Boot Environment by Using a DVD, CD, or Net Installation Image
x86: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment
x86: To Fall Back Despite Successful New Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu
x86: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu
x86: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu and the DVD or CD
Chapter 7 Maintaining Solaris Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)
Overview of Solaris Live Upgrade Maintenance
Displaying the Status of All Boot Environments
To Display the Status of All Boot Environments
Updating a Previously Configured Boot Environment
To Update a Previously Configured Boot Environment
Canceling a Scheduled Create, Upgrade, or Copy Job
To Cancel a Scheduled Create, Upgrade, or Copy Job
Comparing Boot Environments
To Compare Boot Environments
Deleting an Inactive Boot Environment
To Delete an Inactive Boot Environment
Displaying the Name of the Active Boot Environment
To Display the Name of the Active Boot Environment
Changing the Name of a Boot Environment
To Change the Name of an Inactive Boot Environment
Adding or Changing a Description Associated With a Boot Environment Name
To Add or Change a Description for a Boot Environment Name With Text
To Add or Change a Description for a Boot Environment Name With a File
To Determine a Boot Environment Name From a Text Description
To Determine a Boot Environment Name From a Description in a File
To Determine a Boot Environment Description From a Name
Viewing the Configuration of a Boot Environment
To View the Configuration of a Boot Environment
Chapter 8 x86: Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File (Tasks)
x86: Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File (Tasks)
Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst file
Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File When the active menu.lst file is in Another Boot Environment
Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File When a Solaris Live Upgrade Boot Environment is Mounted
Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File When Your System Has an x86 Boot Partition
Chapter 9 Upgrading the Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade and Installed Non-Global Zones (Overview)
Understanding Solaris Zones and Solaris Live Upgrade
Creating and Upgrading a Boot Environment When Non-Global Zones Are Installed (Tasks)
Creating a Boot Environment When a Non-Global Zone Is on a Separate File System
Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade When Non-Global Zones Are Installed on a System (Tasks)
Upgrading a System With Non-Global Zones Installed (Example)
Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade When Non-Global Zones Are Installed on a System
Administering Boot Environments That Contain Non-Global Zones
To View the Configuration of a Boot Environment's Non-Global Zone File Systems
To Compare Boot Environments for a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
Using the lumount Command on a System That Contains Non-Global Zones
Chapter 10 Solaris Live Upgrade (Examples)
Example of Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade
To Install Required Patches
To Install Solaris Live Upgrade on the Active Boot Environment
To Create a Boot Environment
To Upgrade the Inactive Boot Environment
To Check if Boot Environment Is Bootable
To Activate the Inactive Boot Environment
(Optional) To Fall Back to the Source Boot Environment
Example of Detaching and Upgrading One Side of a RAID-1 Volume (Mirror)
Example of Migrating From an Existing Volume to a Solaris Volume Manager RAID-1 Volume
Example of Creating an Empty Boot Environment and Installing a Solaris Flash Archive
To Create an Empty Boot Environment
To Install a Solaris Flash Archive on the New Boot Environment
To Activate the New Boot Environment
Chapter 11 Solaris Live Upgrade (Command Reference)
Solaris Live Upgrade Command-Line Options
Part II Appendices
Appendix A Troubleshooting (Tasks)
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
x86: To Check IDE Disk for Bad Blocks
Upgrading the Solaris OS
Upgrading, Error Messages
Upgrading, General Problems
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
Appendix B Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)
Preventing Modification of the Current OS
Using Absolute Paths
Using the pkgadd -R Command
Differences Between $PKG_INSTALL_ROOT and $BASEDIR Overview
Guidelines for Writing Scripts
Maintaining Diskless Client Compatibility
Verifying Packages
Preventing User Interaction When Installing or Upgrading
Setting Package Parameters For Zones
For Background Information
Appendix C Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading (Tasks)
Upgrading to a Solaris Update Release
To Run the analyze_patches Script
To Review the Patch Analyzer Output
Glossary
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