Testing Upgrade Profiles

In previous Solaris releases, the system administrator could only test profiles that used the initial option. The Solaris 2.6 release now enables the pfinstall command to test profiles that use the upgrade option, so an administrator can see if a profile will do what is wanted before using it to upgrade a system. This is especially useful with the new disk-space reallocation feature.

To test an upgrade profile, you must run the pfinstall -D command on the system that you're going to upgrade (against the system's disk configuration). You cannot test an upgrade profile using a disk configuration file.

For more information, see Solaris Advanced Installation Guide.