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 34–1 lists releases that are supported by Solaris Live Upgrade.
Table 34–1 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.