Mar 18, 2015 this example explains how to upgrade a solaris 10 9 10 system to the solaris 10 1 release. Sun microsystems solaris jumpstart technology is used to automate the installation of the solaris operating system and other associated software on multiple nodes of a network. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. However, you will end up with a nonglobal zone, even if your original system only had a single zone and if you use solaris but dont know what. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image 20070710t16.
Live upgrade solaris with mirrored disks general it. I need to get into a miniroot session to change the file back so it will not try adding duff info to the kernel. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. In this example i will change the default java version which is version 5 to version 6. Solaris 10, solaris install, solaris partitions, solaris ufs. Patch administration installing and maintaining solaris.
Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatchsolaris 10wanbootminirootimage 20070710t16. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Oct 26, 2011 for servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. This page provides the latest information on patching. After quite successful evaluation of running mysql on solaris 10 we decided to move all. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. Upload above all zipped patches and iso image to the server where you want to update to u11 through tool like winscp. See the how to and resources tabs for all our patching documentation for solaris users with various levels of patching experience.
So if one of these contains 15040015, use can use that. Here is the steps to change default version of java in solaris 10 sparc. Mar 22, 20 posting updated june 6, 20, with new solaris 10 kernel patchids 150400xx sparc and 150401xx x86. A miniroot consists of all the solaris software that is required to boot the. To install oracle solaris 10, you must patch the miniroot of the installation. The plan is straight forward in live upgrade method of oracle. It didnt like something and will now not load the kernel. It moves outdated files and directories to the var directory. This example upgrade has been done in x86 virtual machine in virtual box.
Following boyds presentation on liveupgrade at msosug, i used liveupgrade to upgrade a scratch machine to solaris 10, update 4. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. When you patch the miniroot image, the patch is not installed on the system where the oracle solaris os installation occurs or on the system that the patchadd command is run. Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Patching the miniroot image tasks oracle solaris 10 1. Uncompressing miniroot creating miniroot device miniroot filesystem is sparc patch. Limitedtime offer applies to the first charge of a new subscription only. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Patching the miniroot image is strictly used for adding driver and hardware support to the process that performs the actual installation of the oracle solaris os.
May 19, 2009 now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. For solaris 10 patches, use the unzip command to extract the patch files, as follows. Pca analyze, download and install patches for oracle solaris. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. For this reason i will not go through an installation example. If the system is configured with zfs root filesystem, then you have to follow the live upgrade.
Mandatory oracle solaris 10 os patches sparc t7 series. However due to various issues with solaris 10 releases, patching. I have recently installed solaris 10 and things were going great until i tried to change a driver file nf to add my dat 72 tape drive. Frequently asked questions about system firmware oracle. The solaris 10 cpus critical patch updates on mos are archived copies of the solaris 10 recommended patchsets taken on the cpu date. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail the goal was to consolidate 40 or so physical servers onto a m4000. Posting updated june 6, 20, with new solaris 10 kernel patchids 150400xx sparc and 150401xx x86. Minimum requirements for solaris 10 in guest ldoms on m7, s7, and. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root.
We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Hello, the os version of the zfs flar is solaris 10 u9. It updates the patch packages pkginfo file with information about patches made obsolete by the patch being installed, other patches required by this patch, and about patches incompatible with this patch. New capabilities are added to the upgrade tools, so installing the new packages from the target release is important. Use the b option and the c option together so the miniroot does not get too large.
For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. Using solaris jumpstart with the solaris 10 os for x86x64 platforms. Hi after doing a live upgrade from solaris 10 update 8 to solaris 10 update 9 the alternate boot environment i created is no longer bootable. How to make sure you dont corrupt your netinstall miniroot installing solaris with dhcp and pxe. Learn how to install solaris 8, add and remove packages, list installed packages, add and remove patches, and list installed patches. System firmware patches were distinguished with patch ids of the form 12345601. Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. Oracle solaris 10 1 update 11 patch bundle for sparc systems. The idea of upgrading and patching has prompted me to make sure i can do this on a live system. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Before upgrading, you must install the solaris live upgrade packages from the release to which you are upgrading.
The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. Installing the latest version of live upgrade from the update 9 iso. Mandatory oracle solaris 10 1 patches sparc s72 and. Oracle solaris 10 910 or oracle solaris 10 811, plus oracle solaris 10 1 sparc bundle and patches.
This procedure shows how to install a kernel update ku patch on an oracle solaris 10 1 miniroot image on a system that is running the oracle solaris 10 os. Other times, a patch may come in as a jar file indicated by a. Solaris live upgrade solaris 9 to solaris 10 my digital. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patchesupdates. The following patch must be applied to the miniroot of install images used for installing this new version. If you apply too many patches to the miniroot it can grow too large to fit into memory during a net installation of solaris. In some cases we need to change default java version in solaris 10. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find upd the unix and linux forums. Minimum requirements for solaris 10 in guest ldoms on m7. The operating system patch installation is complete.
You can use patch check advanced to make the search for patches easier, and a recent lu will be on your solaris media. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Solaris 10 patches come in zip format, such as 10494502. If you choose to install the oracle solaris 10 os in a guest domain, you must also install additional patches and in some cases, a patch bundle. There are numerous documents on the net that goes in detail how to install a cluster on a solaris 10 system. First task is to now patch the system to the latest patch level 14448812 kernel bug fixes post solaris 10 910 update 9 all patches are kept under directory varloggingpatching hence. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. This sample chapter covers the installation section of the solaris 8 system adminstrator exam. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatchsolaris10wanbootminirootimage 20070710t16. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install. These patches are the sun recommended patches for solaris 10 frozen from may 14th, 2010 how can i uninstall the patch. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with recommended patches.
As usual, weve released a patchset of all the patches contained in solaris 10 1 update 11. Package information successfully updated on boot environment. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patches updates. Solaris 10 update 9 live upgrade issues with zfs oracle.
Find answers to how to remove the solaris 10 sparc patch. A supported version of the os is only supported in guest domains. You also need patches for the solaris 10 cluster and you need a service contract with oracle to get these solaris cluster patches. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site.
You also need patches for the solaris 10 cluster and you need a service contract with. Chapter 7 patching the miniroot image tasks oracle docs. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. Download pca for system registered with oracle csi. For servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. Upgrading to a solaris update release if you are already running the 10 305 release os and have installed individual patches, upgrading to a subsequent solaris 10 release causes the following. But the recommendation is always to use the latest solaris 10 recommended patchset. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most.
Downloading and using this image enables the installation of oracle solaris 10 1 on guest domains via jumpstart without the need to manually patch the packed miniroot. Upgrading to a solaris update release oracle solaris 10. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. This version of pca patch check advanced allows to maintain solaris os patches using oracle solaris premier subscriptions and oracle csi account instead of the sunsolve account with sun contract.
Using solaris jumpstart with the solaris 10 os for x86x64. Sparc t7 series servers product notes oracle solaris 10 811 mandatory patches. Our machine, salsa, is running solaris 10u2 on an x86 host with root disks mirrored with svm. Find answers to how do i get to miniroot in solaris 10. This image contains the original oracle solaris 10 1 software, and a miniroot image which includes kernel patch 15040048. Oracle does provide a procedure called transitioning an oracle solaris 10 instance to an oracle solaris 11 system, enabling you to port your solaris 10 global or nonglobal zone to solaris 11. Im here presenting the steps worklogs that i gathered while i performed the live upgrade of solaris 9 operating environment to solaris 10 operating environment. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Solaris 10 migrating from ufs to zfs with live upgrade i just tested a migration of root from ufs to zfs on x4200.
By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes. The fact is, the primary boot environment is a solaris 10 installation. Patching the miniroot image example oracle solaris 10. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. This example explains how to upgrade a solaris 10 910 system to the solaris 10 1 release.
This book describes how to install the solaris operating system solaris os remotely over a local area network or a wide area network. I have been dealing with solaris 10 live upgrade issues from almost five years but still the new lu patches are not able to fix the common issues like updating the menu. But you cant upgrade the inactive be to solaris 10 as we desire. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. Prepare iso with solaris 10 u11, recommended patch cluster, lu patch. Dec 24, 2011 solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail the goal was to consolidate 40 or so physical servers onto a m4000. The solaris upgrade of the boot environment is complete. Minimum requirements for solaris 10 in guest ldoms on m7, s7. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Prior practice, as noted in above faqs, was to release system firmware patches in a similar form to what was used for oracle solaris 10 content. It determines the solaris version number of the managing host and the target host.
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