Solaris LiveUpgrade

Upgrade Solaris release

Install LiveUpgrade patches

This site has a good list of patches needed:

SPARC:
119254-LR  Install and Patch Utilities Patch
121430-LR  Live Upgrade patch
121428-LR  SUNWluzone required patches
138130-01 vold patch
140914-02 cpio patch

x86:
119255-LR  Install and Patch Utilities Patch
121431-LR  Live Upgrade patch
121429-LR  SUNWluzone required patches
138884-01  SunOS 5.10_x86: GRUB patch
138131-01  vold patch
140915-02 cpio patch

Higher patch revisions may be available...

Mount the Solaris 10 DVD ISO-image

# mkdir /tmp/os
# mount $(lofiadm -a /root/sol-10-u11-ga-x86-dvd.iso) /tmp/os

Create the new BootEnvironment

# lucreate -n Solaris10u11

Upgrade the new BootEnvironment

# echo "autoreg=disable" > /tmp/no-autoreg
# luupgrade -u -n Solaris10u11 -s /tmp/os -k /tmp/no-autoreg

Activate the new BootEnvironment

# luactivate Solaris10u11

Install EIS patches

Mount the new EIS-ISO

# mkdir /tmp/eis
# mount -F hsfs $(lofiadm -a /root/EIS/EIS-DVD-ONE-15JUL15.iso) /tmp/eis

Update LU patches

# cd /tmp/eis/sun/patch/x86/LU/10
# unpack-patches -q -r
# cd

Create the new BootEnvironment

# lucreate -n Solaris10-EIS-15JUL15

Mount the new BootEnvironment

# mkdir /tmp/BE
# lumount Solaris10-EIS-15JUL15 /tmp/BE

Install EIS-Patches

# cd /tmp/eis/sun
# patch-EIS -R /tmp/BE /var/tmp
Will apply patches from directories: x86/10 x86/cacao/2.1 x86/SWUP/10 SunVTS/7.0_x86 x86/LU/10

Patching from directory: patch/x86/10


Cleaning out /tmp/BE//var/tmp/10...
...
Now the Solaris 10_x86 Recommended Patches...
...

Problems: Installing this patch set to an alternate boot environment first requires the live boot environment to have patch utilities and other prerequisite patches

Installing this patch set to an alternate boot environment first requires the
live boot environment to have patch utilities and other prerequisite patches
at the same (or higher) patch revisions as those delivered by this patch set.

The required prerequisite patches can be applied to the live boot environment
by invoking this script with the '--apply-prereq' option, ie.

 ./installpatchset --apply-prereq --s10patchset

Solution

root@solaris10 # cd /mnt/var/tmp/10/10_x86_Recommended
root@solaris10 # ./installpatchset --apply-prereq --s10patchset
...
Installation of prerequisite patches complete.
...

Umount the BE

# luumount Solaris10-EIS-15JUL15

Activate BE & Reboot

# luactivate Solaris10-EIS-15JUL15
# init 6

Solaris 10 CPU with LiveUpgrade

Install LiveUpgrade (and some other necessary) Patches

In the unzipped CPU do:

root@solaris10 # ./installpatchset --s10patchset --apply-prereq

Create LiveUpgrade environment

In this example we use the CPU_2017-07:

root@solaris10 # lucreate -n Solaris_10-CPU_2017-07
...
Population of boot environment <Solaris_10-CPU_2017-07> successful.
Creation of boot environment <Solaris_10-CPU_2017-07> successful.

Apply the patchset to the LiveUpgrade environment

root@solaris10 # ./installpatchset --s10patchset -B Solaris_10-CPU_2017-07

Activate the new patched LiveUpgrade envinronment

root@solaris10 # luactivate Solaris_10-CPU_2017-07

Now you can reboot into it whenever you want, but it should be soon, because of things that will be only in this boot environment later like logs and such.