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Old 01-16-2008, 09:39 AM
Thomas Maier-Komor
 
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Default Re: Solaris Express Live Upgrade

Steve wrote:
> I'm trying to live upgrade my Sun Blade 1000 running B33 to B40 but I'm
> running into problems.
>
> First I find myself embarrassed for blank DVD's until tomorrow so I have
> to use lofiadm. Shouldn't be a prob tho.....
>
> I can create the new boot environment, but I cannot upgrade, I get this
> error:
>
> # luupgrade -u -n sol110606 -s /upgrade/
>
> Validating the contents of the media </upgrade/>.
> The media is a standard Solaris media.
> The media contains an operating system upgrade image.
> The media contains <Solaris> version <11>.
> Constructing upgrade profile to use.
> Locating the operating system upgrade program.
> Checking for existence of previously scheduled Live Upgrade requests.
> Creating upgrade profile for BE <sol110606>.
> Determining packages to install or upgrade for BE <sol110606>.
> /usr/sbin/luupgrade:
> /upgrade//Solaris_11/Tools/Boot/usr/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc:
> cannot execute
> ERROR: Unable to parse software table of contents.
> #
>
> Problem files exists of course:
>
> # ls -l
> /upgrade/Solaris_11/Tools/Boot/usr/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc
> -r-xr-xr-x
> 1 root sys 4040 May 12 09:22
> /upgrade/Solaris_11/Tools/Boot/usr/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc
> #
>
> Any
> guidance apart from don't be so bleeding cutting edge!
>
> Steve
>
>
>


to use live upgrade to upgrade to a newer Solaris release, you must
first install the newer live upgrade packages in your running boot
environment from the install media. Did you do this?

I.e. execute:
$ /cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s0/Solaris_10/Tools/Installers/liveupgrade20

HTH,
Tom
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