SPARC: To Plan for Upgrading
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If you intend to upgrade through the network and you have not preconfigured your system configuration information, gather the following information about the system on which you intend to upgrade the Solaris operating environment.
Information
Example
To find the information (with Solaris installed), use
Host name
crater
uname -n
Host IP address
129.221.2.1
ypmatch system_name hosts or
nismatch system_name hosts.org_dir
Subnet mask
255.255.255.0
more /etc/netmasks
Type of name service (DNS, NIS, or NIS+)
passwd: files nis group: files nis hosts: xfn nis [NOTFOUND=return] files networks: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files protocols: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files rpc: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files ethers: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files netmasks: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files bootparams: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files publickey: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files netgroup: nis automount: files nis aliases: files nis services: files nis sendmailvars: files
cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
Domain name
lbloom.West.Arp.COM
domainname
Host name of name server
thor75
ypwhich
Host IP address of name server
129.153.75.20
ypmatch nameserver_name hosts or
nismatch nameserver_name hosts.org_dir
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