To Create a Profile for Use By Solaris Live Upgrade

After the differential archive is created, it can be installed on the new boot environment by using Solaris Live Upgrade. Solaris Live Upgrade requires a profile that provides the upgrade parameters. The profile is then accessed by the luupgrade command.

1. Use a text editor to create a text file.

2. Add profile keywords and values that provide upgrade parameters. The following keywords can be used for a differential archive.

   Table 3–1 Solaris Live Upgrade Profile Keywords and Descriptions

   Profile Keyword	Description
   (Required) install_type	Defines the installation type. The value for a Solaris Flash differential archive is flash_update.
   (Required) archive_location	Retrieves a Solaris Flash archive from a designated location.
   (Optional) no_master_check	Ignores checking the clone system to make sure that it was built from the original master system.
   (Optional)local_customization	Designates the directory where you have stored custom scripts to preserve local configurations on the clone system.
   (Optional) forced_deployment	Deletes all new files to bring the clone system to the expected state.
   (Optional) no_content_check	Ignores file-by-file validation that ensures the clone system is a duplicate of the master system .

3. Save the profile in a directory on the local system.

4. Ensure that root owns the profile and that the permissions are set to 644.

5. (Optional) Test the profile.

   To use the luupgrade command to install the differential archive, see Chapter 33, “Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade (Tasks)” in Solaris 9 Installation Guide, in the section, “To Upgrade With a Profile by Using Solaris Live Upgrade”.

Example 3–1 Solaris Live Upgrade Profile

The following example of a profile is to be used by Solaris Live Upgrade to install a differential archive on a clone system. Only files that are specified by the differential archive are added, deleted, or changed. The Solaris Flash archive is retrieved from an NFS server. Because the image was built by the original master system, the clone system is not checked for a valid system image. This profile is to be used with the Solaris Live Upgrade luupgrade command and the -u and -j options.

# profile keywords         profile values
# ----------------         -------------------
 install_type              flash_update
 archive_location          nfs installserver:/export/solaris/flasharchive/solaris9archive
 no_master_check