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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning     Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library
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Preface

Part I Upgrading With Live Upgrade

1.  Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  Live Upgrade (Overview)

3.  Live Upgrade (Planning)

4.  Using Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)

5.  Upgrading With Live Upgrade (Tasks)

6.  Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)

7.  Maintaining Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)

8.  Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed

9.  Live Upgrade Examples

Part II Upgrading and Migrating With Live Upgrade to a ZFS Root Pool

10.  Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)

What's New in Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release

What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release

Introduction to Using Live Upgrade With ZFS

Migrating From a UFS File System to a ZFS Root Pool

Migrating From a UFS Root (/) File System to ZFS Root Pool

Migrating a UFS File System With Solaris Volume Manager Volumes Configured to a ZFS Root File System

Creating a New Boot Environment From a ZFS Root Pool

Creating a New Boot Environment Within the Same Root Pool

Creating a New Boot Environment on Another Root Pool

Creating a New Boot Environment From a Source Other Than the Currently Running System

Creating a ZFS Boot Environment on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed

11.  Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)

12.  Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools

13.  Live Upgrade for ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed

Part III Appendices

A.  Live Upgrade Command Reference

B.  Troubleshooting (Tasks)

C.  Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)

D.  Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Creating a New Boot Environment From a Source Other Than the Currently Running System

If you are creating a boot environment from a source other than the currently running system, you must use the lucreate command with the -s option. The -s option works the same as for a UFS file system. The -s option provides the path to the alternate root (/) file system. This alternate root (/) file system is the source for the creation of the new ZFS root pool. The alternate root can be either a UFS (/) root file system or a ZFS root pool. The copy process might take time, depending on your system.

Example 10-5 Creating a Boot Environment From an Alternate Root (/) File System

The following command creates a new ZFS root pool from an existing ZFS root pool. The -n option assigns the name to the boot environment to be created, new-zfsBE. The -s option specifies the boot environment, source-zfsBE, to be used as the source of the copy instead of the currently running boot environment. The -p option specifies to place the new boot environment in newpool2.

# lucreate -n new-zfsBE  -s source-zfsBE -p rpool2

The boot environment, new-zfsBE, is ready to be upgraded and activated.