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Solaris 7 Installation Supplement

Chapter 4 Adding Patches

This chapter provides information on how to install the patch necessary for adding OS services to your server and how to upgrade clients after a server upgrade.

AdminSuite Patch Required for Installation or Upgrade

This section supplements "Adding Server and Client Support Task Map" in System Administration Guide, Volume I on the Solaris 7 Documentation CD.

When you install diskless clients or Solstice AutoClientTM systems from a server running Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 software, you need to install Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 patch number 104468-11 (SPARC) or 104469-11 (Intel) or any subsequent revision of this patch. You will find the patch and installation instructions

If you are unable to obtain the patch from access1.sun.com, go through your normal support channel.

If you are using Solstice AdminSuite software with a patched Solaris release from which it is inadvisable or impossible to remove all the patches, then you need the following file to add OS services:

/var/sadm/patch/.mu_applied

This file is automatically created by the following Maintenance Update releases:

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With this workaround, Solstice AdminSuite software is unable to track all the patches in a system. Use admclientpatch to add or remove patches to or from the system.

Upgrading Clients After a Server Upgrade

This section supplements "Upgrading a System" in the Solaris 7 (SPARC Platform Edition) Installation Library and the Solaris 7 (Intel Platform Edition) Installation Library.

After you upgrade a server, you need to apply the patches in the Patches directory on the Solaris 7 11/99 CD to the clients connected to that server.

For more information on adding patches to clients, see the man page patchadd(1M). For more information on server upgrades, see the man page server_upgrade(1M).