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Solaris Live Upgrade 2.0 Guide
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Preface
Solaris Live Upgrade Overview
Solaris Live Upgrade Introduction
Solaris Live Upgrade Process
Creating a Boot Environment Overview
Upgrading a Boot Environment Overview
Activating a Boot Environment Overview
Fall Back to the Original Boot Environment Overview
Maintaining a Boot Environment Overview
Solaris Live Upgrade Planning
Solaris Live Upgrade System Requirements
Disk Space Requirements
Required Packages
To Check For Packages on Your System
Checking System Patch Levels
Guidelines for Selecting Slices for File Systems
Guidelines for Selecting a Slice for the root (/) File System
Guidelines for Selecting a Slice for a /swap File System
Using Live Upgrade From a Remote System
Upgrades of Root Mirrors and Metadevices
Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment
Solaris Live Upgrade Character User Interface or Command-line Interface
Using Solaris Live Upgrade Menus
Task Map: Installing and Creating Using Solaris Live Upgrade
Installing Solaris Live Upgrade
To Install Solaris Live Upgrade
Starting and Stopping Solaris Live Upgrade (Character Interface)
To Start Solaris Live Upgrade Menus
To Stop Solaris Live Upgrade
Creating a New Boot Environment
To Create a Boot Environment (Character Interface)
To Create a Boot Environment for the First Time (Command-Line Interface)
To Create a Boot Environment and Merge File Systems (Command-Line Interface)
To Create a Boot Environment and Split File Systems (Command-Line Interface)
To Create a Boot Environment and Reconfigure Swap (Command-Line Interface)
To Create a Boot Environment and Reconfigure Swap Using a List (Command-Line Interface)
To Create a Boot Environment and Copy a Shareable File System (Command-Line Interface)
Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade
Task Map: Upgrading a Boot Environment
Upgrading a Boot Environment
To Upgrade an Operating System Image on a Boot Environment (Character Interface)
To Upgrade an Operating System Image on a Boot Environment (Command-Line Interface)
To Upgrade an Operating System Image From Multiple CDs (Command-Line Interface)
Installing Web Start Flash Archives on a Boot Environment
To Install Web Start Flash Archives on a Boot Environment (Character Interface)
To Install Web Start Flash Archives on a Boot Environment (Command-Line Interface)
Activating a Boot Environment
x86: (Optional) Update Boot Diskette Before Activating
To Activate a Boot Environment (Character Interface)
To Activate a Boot Environment (Command-Line Interface)
To Activate a Boot Environment and Synchronize Files (Command-Line Interface)
Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Command-Line Interface)
SPARC: To Fall Back to the Original Boot Environment
SPARC: To Fall Back to the Original Boot Environment by Using a CD or Net Image
x86: To Fall Back With Boot Environments on Different Disks
x86: To Fall Back With Boot Environments on the Same Disk
Maintaining Solaris Live Upgrade Boot Environments
Overview of Solaris Live Upgrade Maintenance
Displaying the Status of All Boot Environments
To Display the Status of All Boot Environments (Character Interface)
To Display the Status of All Boot Environments (Command-Line Interface)
Updating a Previously Configured Boot Environment
To Update a Previously Configured Boot Environment (Character Interface)
To Update a Previously Configured Boot Environment (Command-Line Interface)
Canceling a Scheduled Create, Upgrade, or Copy Job
To Cancel a Scheduled Create, Upgrade, or Copy Job (Character Interface)
To Cancel a Scheduled Create, Upgrade, or Copy Job (Command-Line Interface)
Comparing Boot Environments
To Compare Boot Environments (Character Interface)
To Compare Boot Environments (Command-Line Interface)
Deleting an Inactive Boot Environment
To Delete an Inactive Boot Environment (Character Interface)
To Delete an Inactive Boot Environment (Command-line Interface)
Displaying the Name of the Active Boot Environment
To Display the Name of the Active Boot Environment (Character Interface)
To Display the Name of the Active Boot Environment (Command-Line Interface)
Changing the Name of a Boot Environment
To Change the Name of an Inactive Boot Environment (Character Interface)
To Change the Name of an Inactive Boot Environment (Command-Line Interface)
Viewing the Configuration of a Boot Environment
To View the Configuration of Each Inactive Boot Environment (Character Interface)
To View the Configuration a Boot Environment (Command-Line Interface)
Solaris Live Upgrade Reference
Appendix A Troubleshooting
Upgrade Problems
Cannot Use the Solaris 8 Device Configuration Assistant Intel Platform Edition diskette to Boot the New Boot Environment
Creation of New Boot Environment Fails When Reconfiguring Swap
System Panics When Upgrading On Veritas VxVm
Glossary
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