From: Sebastien Daubigne (sebastien.daubigne@atosorigin.com)
Date: Thu Nov 10 2005 - 09:36:05 EST
Thanks to Tim, Scott, Matthew, JV, Chis for your answer.
+ Concensus is that updating is not equivalent to patching.
+ Patching only affect packages which are already installed.
+ Updating will add new packages/fonctionnality that patching will not,
especially hardware specific packages
+ The latest version of Solaris 8 is 02/04, not 07/03
There was also an advice to not clone from E450 to V440 because they are not
the same architecture.
About this, I must say that even if this is not recommended or supported, it
can work if all necessary packages/patches for V440 are installed (and both
servers are sun4u).
I've already done this from E450 to SF280 without trouble :
- boot cdrom
- ufsdump/ufsrestore
- cleanup /dev /devices
- copy /dev /devices and /etc/path_to_inst from CDROM
- installboot
- modify vfstab
- boot -r
-- Sebastien DAUBIGNE Sebastien.daubigne@atosorigin.com mailto:Sebastien.daubigne@atosorigin.com> - +33(0)5.57.26.56.36 AtosOrigin Infogerance - IMS/ERP/Pessac -----Message d'origine----- De : sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org]De la part de Sebastien Daubigne Envoye : mercredi 9 novembre 2005 18:45 A : sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Objet : Recommended and Security Patches versus Solaris release Hi, Does someone know if upgrading a Solaris 8 system to latest release (e.g from 02/02 to 07/03) using CDROM is equivalent to applying latest recommended & security patches ? Would I miss some new packages (HW related and others) if I only patch the system instead of upgrading ? The idea is to prepare a Solaris 8 02/02 on a E450 to be cloned to a V440 which only supports Solaris 07/03. I want to make sure that I will have all necessary packages for V440 by just patching with latest recommended cluster. -- Sebastien DAUBIGNE Sebastien.daubigne@atosorigin.com - +33(0)5.57.26.56.36 AtosOrigin Infogerance - IMS/ERP/Pessac _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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