SUMMARY: Re: live upgrade Can you go from Sol8 to Sol9

From: Greg Wilson <gwilson_at_connect.com.au>
Date: Thu Feb 10 2005 - 20:46:11 EST
Thanks for all you people who responded..

I needed to install the Live Upgrade packages off the Solaris 9
Media Disc

I did try the version off sun.com so that must be an older one.

gw



On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:12:53PM +1100, Greg Wilson wrote:
> Hi
> Im having some problems upgrading a Solaris 8 machine
> to a Solaris 9 machine via live upgrade
> 
> The machine is setup with Solaris8
> 
> live upgrade installed
> 
> application SUNWlur              Live Upgrade 2.0 10/01 (root)
> application SUNWluu              Live Upgrade 2.0 10/01 (usr)
> 
> 
> the machine is not under any ODS control.
> 
> i create a Boot Environment
> 
> and copied over the Sol8 disk to the Sol9 disk
> 
> i then inserted the Solaris9 DVD media and mounted it
> 
> then i tried to upgrade to solaris 9
> 
> and i get this message
> 
> 
> <snip>
> The media is a standard Solaris media.
> The media contains an operating system upgrade image.
> The media contains <Solaris> version <9>.
> The media contains patches for the product.
> ERROR: This version of Live Upgrade is unable to upgrade to <Solaris>
> version 
> <9>. Only upgrades to version <5.8> are supported by this version of Live 
> Upgrade.
> 
> Press ENTER to continue
> <snip>
> 
> any ideas?
> 
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> Greg Wilson	Senior System Administrator	greg.wilson@aapt.com.au
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