Solaris LiveUpgrade

Upgrade Solaris release

Install LiveUpgrade patches

This site has a good list of patches needed: <syntaxhighlight lang=bash> 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 </source> Higher patch revisions may be available...

Mount the Solaris 10 DVD ISO-image

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

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Create the new BootEnvironment

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1. lucreate -n Solaris10u11

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Upgrade the new BootEnvironment

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

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Activate the new BootEnvironment

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1. luactivate Solaris10u11

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Install EIS patches

Mount the new EIS-ISO

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

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Update LU patches

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1. cd /tmp/eis/sun/patch/x86/LU/10
2. unpack-patches -q -r
3. cd

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Create the new BootEnvironment

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1. lucreate -n Solaris10-EIS-15JUL15

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Mount the new BootEnvironment

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1. mkdir /tmp/BE
2. lumount Solaris10-EIS-15JUL15 /tmp/BE

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Install EIS-Patches

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1. cd /tmp/eis/sun
2. 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... ... </source>

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

<syntaxhighlight lang=bash> 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

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Solution

<syntaxhighlight lang=bash> root@solaris10 # cd /mnt/var/tmp/10/10_x86_Recommended root@solaris10 # ./installpatchset --apply-prereq --s10patchset ... Installation of prerequisite patches complete. ... </source>

Umount the BE

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1. luumount Solaris10-EIS-15JUL15

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Activate BE & Reboot

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1. luactivate Solaris10-EIS-15JUL15
2. init 6

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Solaris 10 CPU with LiveUpgrade

Install LiveUpgrade (and some other necessary) Patches

In the unzipped CPU do: <syntaxhighlight lang=bash> root@solaris10 # ./installpatchset --s10patchset --apply-prereq </source>

Create LiveUpgrade environment

In this example we use the CPU_2017-07: <syntaxhighlight lang=bash> 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. </source>

Apply the patchset to the LiveUpgrade environment

<syntaxhighlight lang=bash> root@solaris10 # ./installpatchset --s10patchset -B Solaris_10-CPU_2017-07 </source>

Activate the new patched LiveUpgrade envinronment

<syntaxhighlight lang=bash> root@solaris10 # luactivate Solaris_10-CPU_2017-07 </source>

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.