Solaris Live Upgrade is included in the Solaris 9 software. If you want to upgrade by using Solaris Live Upgrade, you need to install the Solaris Live Upgrade packages on your current operating environment. You can upgrade a boot environment to a release of the Solaris Operating Environment that is the same as the release of the Solaris Live Upgrade packages installed on your machine. For example, if on your current Solaris 8 operating environment, you installed Solaris 9 Live Upgrade packages, you could upgrade a boot environment to the Solaris 9 marketing or update release.
Table 31–1 lists releases that are supported by Solaris Live Upgrade.
Table 31–1 Supported Solaris Releases
Platform |
Release You Are Upgrading From |
Release You Are Upgrading To |
---|---|---|
SPARC based system |
Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, or Solaris 8 operating environment |
Solaris 8, operating environment |
SPARC based system |
Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, or Solaris 8 operating environment |
Solaris 9 operating environment |
x86 based system |
Solaris 7 operating environment |
Solaris 8 operating environment |
x86 based system |
Solaris 7 or Solaris 8 operating environment |
Solaris 9 operating environment |
You cannot upgrade to the Solaris 7 operating environment.
You can install the Solaris Live Upgrade packages from the following:
An installer on the Solaris DVD, the Solaris Software 2 of 2 CD, or a net installation image.
The pkgadd command. If you are using the pkgadd command, the packages are SUNWlur and SUNWluu, and these packages must be installed in that order.
For instructions on installing the Solaris Live Upgrade software, see To Install Solaris Live Upgrade.