SPARC: To Clean Up After Upgrading

After you finish upgrading a system, you might need to clean it up. When you upgrade, the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program merges local software modifications of the existing system with the new Solaris software; however, in some cases, merging is not possible.

1. See the contents of the following file to determine whether you need to fix local modifications that the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program could not preserve:

   /a/var/sadm/system/data/upgrade_cleanup

   ---

   Caution -

   Check all the contents of upgrade_cleanup carefully. Your system might not boot if you don't fix the unpreserved local modifications.

   ---

2. If necessary, fix any unpreserved local modifications.

3. Reboot the system:

   # reboot

If you've upgraded a heterogeneous operating system server, clients of that server are automatically upgraded only if their platform (SPARC or IA) and platform group (for example, sun4m or i86pc) are supported by the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 and Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 CDs.

For example, if you upgrade a SPARC platform server using the CDs labeled Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 SPARC Platform Edition and Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 SPARC Platform Edition, only SPARC clients that share the platform group on the CDs are upgraded as well.

To upgrade clients of different platforms and platform groups, you must use the server_upgrade(1M) command.