From: Tim Bingham (binghamt@upstate.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 18 2005 - 09:39:32 EST
Greetings all,
I am trying to upgrade the OS on a SunFire V480 from Solaris 8 2/02
to 9 9/04 using a Solaris 9 system software CD set. I previously
successfully upgraded a V100 with the same OS versions using these
CDs so I'm pretty confident they're okay.
I booted the CD, went through the identification steps, then the next
output looked like this:
System identification complete.
Generating software table of contents [this may take a few minutes...]
Table of contents complete.
Starting Solaris installation program...
Executing JumpStart preinstall phase...
Searching for SolStart directory...
Checking rules.ok file...
Using begin script: install_begin
Using finish script: patch_finish
Executing SolStart preinstall phase...
Executing begin script "install_begin"...
Begin script install_begin execution completed.
The system then hangs. The hard disks activity lights blink, but it
never continues with the next steps.
The V480, except for the hardware, is nearly identical to the V100
that I already upgraded. We use the V100 as a test bed for
applications on the V480 so I try to keep it as close as possible.
Since my first attempt, I have applied patches suggested by the
analysis from PatchPro I installed, and tried the installation
without identifying a DNS server (as suggested by the first Sun
Support engineer I spoke with), but it still hangs.
I am not using a Jumpstart server, just trying to upgrade off of the
CD. The two drives in the V480 are mirrored using Disksuite 4.2.1
just like the ones in the V100 that worked fine.
Any ideas, please? I've searched the list archives and found a couple
others who posted with a similar problem, but solutions were never
posted. Sun Support has moved this up a step from the first engineer
I spoke with, but they haven't yet come up with any suggestions. Any
help would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Tim
Tim Bingham
Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
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