From: Edson Luiz Avanzi (eavanzi@romi.com.br)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 15:27:14 EDT
Could you help me about the Upgrade Solaris 2.6 to 8, please?
My system is E3500 with Solaris 2.6 and Veritas Volume Manager 3.1 and I
intend to upgrade to Solaris 8, only (without any other modifications).
My primary boot drive is in a Veritas Volume and it is mirrored, too.
Into VM Documentation, found the following steps:
UPGRADING SOLARIS ONLY
1) If any of the file systems /, /usr, /var,or /opt are defined on
volumes, make sure that at least one plex for each of those volumes is
formed from a single subdisk that begins on a cylinder boundary. This is
necessary because part of the upgrade process involves temporarily
converting file systems on volumes back to using direct disk partitions,
and Solaris requires that disk partitions start on cylinder boundaries.
The upgrade scripts automatically convert file systems on volumes back to
using regular disk partitions, as necessary. If the upgrade scripts detect
any problems (such as lack of cylinder alignment), they display an
explanation of the problem and the upgrade does not proceed.
2) Run the upgrade_start script to prepare Volume Manager for the OS
upgrade.
3) Shut down and halt the machine
4) Upgrade the operating system to Solaris 2.6, 7, or 8. Refer to the
Solaris installation documentation for instructions on how to upgrade
Solaris.
5) Reboot to single-user mode.
6) Complete the upgrade by entering upgrade_finish
7) Reboot to multi-user mode
Volume Manager will not function properly until the upgrade_finish script
has been run.
Sorry, but I4m novice on Solaris and Veritas.
What does the step 1 (in red) means?
Is this documentation sufficient to do the upgrade?
Please, send me step by step of my upgrade.
Thanks.
Edson
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