The following table lists limitations when you upgrade a system under some conditions.
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For ZFS root pools, there are other upgrade limitations |
You can only use Solaris Live Upgrade to upgrade ZFS root pools. |
For requirements and limitations. seeChapter 12, Solaris Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning), in Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning. |
Upgrading to a different software group |
You cannot upgrade your system to a software group that is not installed on the system. For example, if you previously installed the End User Solaris Software Group on your system, you cannot use the upgrade option to upgrade to the Developer Solaris Software Group. However, during the upgrade you can add software to the system that is not part of the currently installed software group. |
For more information on software groups, see Disk Space Recommendations for Software Groups. |
Upgrading when non-global zones are installed |
You can upgrade a system that has non-global zones installed with the Solaris installation program, Solaris Live Upgrade or JumpStart. The following limitations apply:
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For requirements and limitations see Upgrading With Non-Global Zones. |
Patching with Solaris Live Upgrade from the Solaris 8 or 9 OS |
You cannot use Solaris Live Upgrade to patch a Solaris 10 inactive boot environment when the active boot environment is running the Solaris 8 or 9 OS. Solaris Live Upgrade will invoke the patch utilities on the active boot partition to patch the inactive boot partition. The Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 patch utilities are unaware of Solaris Zone, Service Management Facility (SMF), and other enhancements in the Solaris 10 OS. Therefore the patch utilities fail to correctly patch an inactive Solaris 10 boot environment. Therefore, if you are using Solaris Live Upgrade to upgrade a system from the Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 OS to the Solaris 10 OS, you must first activate the Solaris 10 boot environment before patching. After the Solaris 10 boot environment is activated, you can either patch the active boot environment directly or set up another inactive boot environment and patch that one by using Solaris Live Upgrade. |
For more information on patching with Solaris Live Upgrade, see To Add Patches to a Network Installation Image on a Boot Environment in Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning |
Upgrading with Veritas file systems |
The Solaris interactive installation and custom JumpStart programs do not present you with the opportunity to upgrade a system when you are using Veritas VxVM file systems under these conditions:
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To upgrade when Veritas VxVM is configured, use one of the following methods:
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