Installation guide

Before You Begin
This section contains critical installation issues that you need to be aware of before installing or
upgrading to Solaris 10 OS. These issues might have an impact that would prevent installation
or upgrades from completing successfully. If bugs in this section apply to your system, you
might need to perform the recommended workarounds before you install or upgrade.
Solaris Live Upgrade and Solaris Zones
Starting with the Solaris 10 8/07 release, using Solaris Live Upgrade with Solaris zones is
supported. For more information about this, see InfoDoc 206844 at
http://
sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-61-206844-1
.
Solaris Live Upgrade Restrictions
For Solaris Live Upgrade to operate correctly, a limited set of patch revisions must be installed
for a given OS version. Make sure you have the most recently updated patch list by consulting
http://sunsolve.sun.com. The Solaris 10 10/09 release has the following Solaris Live Upgrade
restrictions:
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To upgrade your current Solaris 8 OS to the Solaris 10 10/09 release using Solaris Live
Upgrade, perform the following steps:
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For SPARC systems– Solaris Live Upgrade from the Solaris 8 release to the Solaris 10
10/09 release is supported. For step-by-step procedures on how to use Solaris Live
Upgrade, see
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/
live_upgrade_patch.jsp
.
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For x86 systems– Solaris Live Upgrade from the Solaris 8 release to the Solaris 10 10/09
release is not supported. Instead, use the standard upgrade procedure or perform a
Solaris Live Upgrade from the Solaris 8 OS to the Solaris 9 OS or to the Solaris 10 OS.
Then you can perform a Solaris Live Upgrade from the Solaris 9 release or the Solaris 10
release to the Solaris 10 10/09.
Note – Solaris Live Upgrade from Solaris 8 to the Solaris 10 5/08, Solaris 10 10/08, Solaris 10
5/09, and Solaris 10 10/09 releases is supported through
http://sunsolve.sun.com/
search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-250526-1
.
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To upgrade your current Solaris 9 OS to the Solaris 10 10/09 release using Solaris Live
Upgrade, apply the following patches:
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For SPARC systems– 137477-01 or later
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For x86 systems– 137478-01 or later
BeforeYou Begin
Chapter 1 • Installation Issues 19